{"id":734766,"date":"2026-06-22T04:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/when-the-trump-administration-cracks-down-on-anthropic-who-benefits\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:35:20","slug":"when-the-trump-administration-cracks-down-on-anthropic-who-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/when-the-trump-administration-cracks-down-on-anthropic-who-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and digital sovereignty.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Sean O\u2019Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed what actually prompted the administration\u2019s moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the broader AI ecosystem.<\/p>\n

As Sean put it, \u201cAnthropic has not had the best relationship with the Trump administration in a way that stands apart from the other leading AI labs,\u201d so perhaps other Anthropic\u2019s rivals don\u2019t need to worry about a similar crackdown.<\/p>\n

But Rebecca also noted that leading cybersecurity experts have \u201csigned an open letter to ask Trump to revoke the order, and they say it\u2019s actually dangerous to have to pull these advanced cybersecurity capabilities from network defenders in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

And we wondered whether this could all end up being good publicity for Anthropic, especially since \u2014 in Rebecca\u2019s words \u2014 \u201ceverybody loves a bad boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep reading for a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Bellan:<\/strong> As I\u2019m sure many of our listeners know, the U.S. government basically just forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models offline \u2014 Fable 5, and then there was also Mythos 5, which was the one that was available to current Mythos users, [whereas] Fable 5 was more available to the public.<\/p>\n

They sent a letter [last] Friday that cited \u201cnational security concerns.\u201d No one knows what those concerns are. That report has not been made public, they gave no specifics and told [Anthropic] that they had to ensure that those models couldn\u2019t be used by any foreign nationals. So Anthropic was like, \u201cOkay, I guess we have to just pull the models entirely, because we don\u2019t know when someone\u2019s a foreign national. A lot of our own employees are foreigners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But really, [reports said] the White House got tipped off to this because of some Amazon researchers that allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5\u2019s guardrails. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised these concerns with the White House, and it just kind of spiraled from there.<\/p>\n

Sean O\u2019Kane:<\/strong> This all moved really fast, especially for a Friday afternoon into a weekend. And it\u2019s at the same time that the administration was ostensibly trying to negotiate some sort of treaty for the war that it started in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rebecca:<\/strong> Friday evening for us in New York. They love a distraction.<\/p>\n

Sean:<\/strong> Let\u2019s step real far back for a moment. Anthropic has not had the best relationship with the Trump administration in a way that stands apart from the other leading AI labs \u2014 I think there\u2019s an element, at least, of that playing here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So do you think that this is going to have implications for those other companies? Do you think that the Trump administration would be less inclined to sort of turn off the tap on one of those competitors?<\/p>\n

Anthony Ha:<\/strong> Part of the context here is that both the reporting and an analysis from independent security experts suggest that the actual security risk from Anthropic is not that unique. So a lot of this seems to stem as much from parts of the Trump administration and Anthropic just [not getting] along very well. Whatever risks there are, those things are gonna blow up out of proportion just because it seems like they can\u2019t have a civil phone call with each other.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re another company \u2014 on the one hand, maybe that\u2019s advantageous to you, because you can say, \u201cWell, we just don\u2019t get these guys mad at us and we can do what we want.\u201d But that\u2019s also not a great regulatory landscape to just [say], \u201cBoy, I hope they don\u2019t get mad at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebecca: <\/strong>On the one hand, it definitely feels retaliatory \u2014 after the government labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, there\u2019s this big lawsuit going on between them, it really feels like the White House is just looking out for any excuse to pummel Anthropic. And I feel that way not only because that was my initial reaction, but because of what a lot of cybersecurity researchers have said. They say that this should never have triggered an export control [order]. They\u2019ve all signed an open letter to ask Trump to revoke the order, and they say it\u2019s actually dangerous to have to pull these advanced cybersecurity capabilities from network defenders in the U.S. Anthropic itself said some of the same jailbreaks could have been found in several other AI models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cynically, it\u2019s like: Okay, are you just pausing Anthropic so that others can catch up to where Anthropic was?<\/p>\n

But at the same time, I\u2019ve also seen reactions that [say]: Anthropic kinda had this coming. They\u2019re like, \u201cThis is too dangerous for anyone to use, but not us, we\u2019re the good guys.\u201d They\u2019re talking out of both sides of their mouth. A week before Fable came out, they were [saying], \u201cHey, we need to slow down AI, guys. It\u2019s getting really dangerous.\u201d But then boom, \u201cHere\u2019s our most insane ever, super powerful model, go off.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> In some ways this feels like a microcosm of a lot of the discussion around AI, where people like Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are [saying], \u201cHey, let\u2019s try to lower the temperature. Why is everybody mad at us?\u201d Well, you spent the last couple years essentially saying you\u2019ve built this God machine that will take jobs away from everyone. It\u2019s not exactly a shock that people don\u2019t feel great about this.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s something about the way Anthropic talks about Mythos in particular, where they\u2019re like, \u201cThis is the most incredibly powerful model ever, it\u2019s too dangerous to release to the public.\u201d And so on some level, [you say,] \u201cWell, okay, let\u2019s say that we take that seriously then. That means that there\u2019s going to be an incredible level of scrutiny around it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I do wonder \u2014 it does seem like Anthropic is not happy about this. I want to be careful about not overstating how this could be beneficial to them. But we also ran some stories about Ramp analysis to highlight the fact that the last big blow-up between Anthropic and the Trump administration was good for the company, in at least some ways. Download<\/a>s of Claude shot up. I think a lot of people who maybe had thought of ChatGPT as the<\/em> chatbot, the<\/em> AI assistant before, suddenly they were looking at Claude as maybe the more responsible one, the more \u201cresistance\u201d one.<\/p>\n

And in the same way, [while] Anthropic is very stressed out about this, this could, again, make their models seem even more powerful.<\/p>\n

Rebecca:<\/strong> Definitely. \u201cWe\u2019re so dangerous.\u201d Everyone loves a bad boy, right? Everyone\u2019s like, \u201cIt\u2019s the most powerful model, even Trump says so. Of course, I\u2019ve got to get my hands on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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