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Trump Says He No Longer Sees Anthropic as Security Threat

June 19, 2026 at 16:36 EDT

Policy & Regulation
Foundation Models

President Donald Trump said on June 19, 2026, on Axios's interview program "The Axios Show" that he no longer views Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei as a national security threat, citing the company's swift compliance with U.S. AI export controls.

June 19, 2026 · Frontier AI & National Security

Trump Drops "National Security Threat" Label on Anthropic After Export-Control Standoff

A week after Washington ordered Anthropic to block foreign access to its two most advanced models—forcing a worldwide shutdown of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5—the President says relations have improved now that the company has complied.

Frontier models disabled worldwide — Fable 5 & Mythos 5

3 days

From June 9 release to June 12 export-control order

1st

Direct U.S. export control on a frontier AI model itself

Benchmark behind the buzz — SWE-Bench Pro

Real GitHub issue resolution (%) · Fable 5 vs prior Opus 4.8

80.3%

Fable 5

69.2%

Opus 4.8

How it escalated — and partly cooled

FEB 2026

Pentagon labels Anthropic a "supply-chain risk"

→

JUN 12

Commerce orders foreign-access block; models go dark worldwide

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JUN 19

After compliance, Trump no longer sees a threat

Tester praise (pre-shutdown)

"Major-version-bump" step change in capability
Exceptional one-shot work on large codebases
1M input / 128K output token context

Concerns after the directive

Sudden global disruption; experts call it overreach
Risk to U.S. AI leadership and defenders
Restoration timeline not disclosed

Pricing (per 1M tokens)

$10 input · $50 output

Knowledge cutoff

January 2026

Trigger

Reported narrow jailbreak

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