Anthropic fight with Trump turns into a cyber-defense fight

Security leaders say the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 restrictions risk punishing the same bug-finding work defenders need.

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Primary source: Axios

Why it matters

The Fable 5 dispute is becoming a test case for whether U.S. AI policy treats vulnerability discovery as a defensive capability or a restricted weapon.

Illustration of a looming government building labeled "Trump" confronting interwoven digital shields labeled "Fable 5" and "Mythos 5" protecting Anthropic.

Dario Amodei's Anthropic is now at the center of a wider fight over whether Washington is about to make defensive security research harder in the name of controlling AI-enabled hacking.…

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