White House Ordered Anthropic to Cut SK Telecom Access
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- The White House ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based SK Telecom's access to Claude Mythos over alleged ties to China, days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, per Wired.
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is now leading AI policy in the Trump administration as David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, per Axios.
- Anthropic has floated a proposal to Lutnick to end the US ban on its "Mythos" and "Fable" models, per the New York Post.
- Trump administration officials are demanding Anthropic prove Fable 5's guardrails cannot be circumvented before rerelease — a threshold experts tell Wired may be technically impossible.
- Anthropic is opening a Seoul office amid the US export restrictions and partnerships with Korean companies, per UPI.
- The EU cybersecurity agency plans to meet with Anthropic under a US export cloud framework, per The Next Web.
Why it matters: Lutnick — not Sacks or Krishnan — is now the gatekeeper for whether and when Anthropic's frontier models return to market. The White House's demand for jailbreak-proof guardrails, which experts call potentially unachievable, means Mythos and Fable 5 could stay offline indefinitely; Anthropic's proposal to Lutnick is the company's only visible off-ramp.
