The White House's restrictions on Anthropic's leading AI models may inadvertently give China an opening to close the gap in the global AI race, CNBC reports.

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to Mythos 5 to over 100 US companies and government agencies.

The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns; the government will approve customer access on a case-by-case basis.

The U.S. government forced Anthropic to take its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline under export control directives that remain widely misunderstood.

TechCrunch analysis finds the Trump administration's decision to force Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models may be retaliatory rather than security-driven.

US government AI use cases have grown 70% since Biden left office, with many plans to hand sensitive governmental functions to AI amid lack of transparency.

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off foreign access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security, after the company refused military surveillance use.

CNBC reports OpenAI and U.S. officials discussed a possible government stake in the AI startup.

President Trump signed an AI order asking companies to provide early model access for government cybersecurity review.

Anthropic is in talks with the Trump administration about its new frontier AI model Mythos, even as the Pentagon blacklisted the firm over a contract dispute.

Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell summoned bank CEOs to discuss testing Anthropic's Claude Mythos, as US officials explore AI model deployment in the financial sector.

VP JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Bessent questioned leading tech CEOs about AI model security and cyber response strategies ahead of Anthropic's Mythos rollout.

Venture capitalist David Sacks has officially left his role as President Trump's Special Advisor on AI and Crypto after exhausting his 130-day special government employee limit, moving to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction halting the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, ruling the move was likely unlawful retaliation for the company's refusal to remove AI safety guardrails for military use.

The Trump administration published its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, urging Congress to establish a single federal standard that would override the growing patchwork of state-level AI regulations, handing Big Tech the federal preemption it has long lobbied for.

The White House and House Republicans are jointly developing a legislative package to preempt state-level AI regulations, combining AI law preemption with children's online safety provisions as the 90-day deadline from Trump's December AI executive order arrives.

Trump administration labels Utah HB 286 unfixable, asserting federal AI regulation authority through executive order despite child protection exemption promises.

The U.S. Department of Transportation under the Trump administration plans to leverage Google's Gemini AI to draft new federal regulations, aiming to accelerate rulemaking but sparking concerns over safety and accuracy.

The Trump administration is pushing for major tech companies to pay for the construction of new power plants to meet the surging electricity demand from AI data centers, with a proposed $15 billion commitment from the industry.