Anthropic has reportedly received government approval to restore some access to its Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model.
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This came after the AI startup resolved the White House’s concerns about the potential national security danger represented by the model, Bloomberg News reported late Friday (June 26).
“Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company in a letter seen by Bloomberg News. “These efforts have yielded significant progress,” he wrote, adding that the model could be released to “certain trusted partners.”
According to the report, the clearance cools a conflict that began earlier this month when the government blocked Anthropic from letting foreign nationals and businesses access Mythos 5 and sister model Fable 5.
“In just two weeks, we have worked diligently to ensure America remains the global leader in AI while safeguarding our security,” Commerce Department spokesman Benno Kass told Bloomberg.
Anthropic issued a statement to Bloomberg affirming that it could begin redeploying Mythos 5 to a small group of cyberd efenders and infrastructure providers.
“We are working to provision the approved set of providers and restore their access to Mythos 5 as quickly as possible. We are pleased to see this progress and continue to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again.”
The report added that it isn’t clear what measures Anthropic took to ease the government’s concerns that it was possible to “jailbreak,” or bypass guardrails on, Mythos and Fable. A source familiar with the matter said the company would hold further talks on Fable over the weekend.
The news outlet had spoken last week with European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen, who said that the regulator had met with the White House to discuss gaining access to Mythos.
In other AI news, PYMNTS wrote last week about the way the technology has made corporate expense management more difficult.
That field, the report said, “has long treated the receipt as proof of transaction. An employee submits a receipt, a finance team member reviews it and the claim is approved or flagged.”
This model was fine in an era when creating convincing fakes required photo editing skills or a paid online service, but no longer works now that free AI image generators can create a receipt with realistic paper texture, accurate itemization and a matching timestamp in under a minute.
“These receipts have become so good, we tell our customers, ‘Do not trust your eyes,’” Chris Juneau, senior vice president and head of product marketing at SAP Concur, told PYMNTS in an October report.
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