Trump Administration Orders Anthropic To Block Mythos 5 And Fable 5 From Non-Americans

The Trump administration’s interventions to filter access to cutting-edge AI from Anthropic and OpenAI strengthened interest in so-called open models, particularly Chinese ones, an AFP report said from New York.

“Syria has regained a leading place on the international community's agenda for several weeks now, and for reasons quite different from those related to war and terrorism”

Atalayar

In early June, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to prohibit its advanced Mythos 5 and Fable 5 from non-American nationals, and the startup decided to take them offline outright.

Atalayar

The United States lifted these restrictions at the end of June, and the episode “astonished the industry,” the AFP report said, especially after OpenAI agreed that the government would approve every customer of its new model, GPT-5.6.

AFP quoted Kirill on X saying, “No one can suspend an open model once it is released,” contrasting open models with so-called closed AI that remains under its designers’ control.

Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, predicted on X that the danger illustrated by Mythos will slow the progress of open models and push China toward closed AIs.

The United States and France backed Syria’s return to the international community after meetings between Syrian president Ahmed Al-Sharaa and French President Emmanuel Macron in Damascus and between Al-Sharaa and U.S. President Donald Trump at a NATO summit in Ankara, Atalayar reported.

Atalayar said the meeting held last Wednesday, July 8, in Ankara ended with Trump praising Al-Sharaa as a strong and respected leader and committing to remove obstacles hindering Syria’s reconstruction.

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The same Wednesday, Atalayar said the process to remove Syria from the blacklist of countries that support terrorism was launched, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stating Trump informed Congress of “the intention of his administration to revoke Syria's designation as a state sponsoring terrorism, after a 45-day notice period.”

Atalayar also described a separate step in which Trump signed a decree ending the U.S. sanctions program against Syria in June, which it said allowed Syria to break its isolation from the international financial system.

Atalayar added that U.S. support for Al-Sharaa’s government followed Macron’s Damascus visit, where Macron emphasized France’s interest in maintaining support for Syria’s development through a lasting partnership and the construction of a regional hub for energy corridors.

After a double earthquake shook Venezuela on June 24 and left more than 3,500 dead and tens of thousands homeless, a BBC report said the United States led international efforts to help the country.

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The BBC said that less than a day after the quake, Washington announced it would allocate US$150 million to address the emergency and send more than 250 people, including firefighters trained in rescues under collapsed structures, doctors, paramedics, and engineers specializing in risk assessment in buildings.

The report said U.S. officials led by SOUTHCOM’s head General Francis Donovan and the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. embassy in Caracas, John Barrett, met with Venezuelan authorities including Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, whom Washington accuses of narcoterrorism and for whom it is offering a 25 million dollar reward.

The BBC described a viral video in which a man with a yellow helmet celebrated the arrival of U.S. forces while a MV-22B Osprey helicopter flew overhead, and the man said, “Welcome to Venezuela.”

As of July 8, the BBC reported Washington had allocated more than US$386 million in aid, and it said the State Department delivered more than 400 metric tons of essential relief supplies benefiting about 70,000 people.