G7 leaders propose scheme to access American AI models

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World leaders and tech executives have discussed creating a “trusted partners scheme” that would allow American allies to access models released by US companies. The backstory to this idea is an order issued by the Trump administration on Friday that banned Anthropic from releasing its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to foreign users. The company was given just 90 minutes to comply. In response, it disabled the models altogether. The export ban was justified on national security grounds and reportedly came after Amazon researchers found vulnerabilities in Fable’s guardrails. Such concerns are valid, and the Trump administration recently started assessing models before their release. But it is difficult to divorce the sudden ban from Anthropic’s ongoing dispute with the Department of Defense, which designated the company a supply chain risk after it refused to lift safeguards on targeting and surveillance.