Senior Anthropic staff will meet Trump administration officials Monday to address an export control order received Friday that requires blocking foreign access to the firm's newest AI systems over an unspecified national security threat. The action follows the Pentagon's March designation of the company as a supply chain risk and continues amid active litigation seeking to reverse that label.
To comply, the firm immediately cut off every customer from the two releases.
The person added that Anthropic had received no prior warning about any national security concern before the order.
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