Anthropic has agreed to implement a new security safeguard for its most advanced artificial intelligence models after reaching a deal with the Trump administration that led to the removal of export restrictions imposed just weeks earlier over cybersecurity concerns.
According to a report by WIRED, Anthropic expanded an existing safety mechanism designed to prevent users from accessing particularly sensitive cybersecurity capabilities within its AI models. Under the new measure, requests that trigger the safeguard will automatically be redirected to the company's less capable Opus 4.8 model instead of allowing the more advanced Fable 5 or Mythos 5 systems to respond. The models are back on as of Thursday.
