These are overseen by U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and forbid foreign nationals from access to any form of Mythos, either within or outside the U.S.
Only U.S. citizens and immigrants that are holders of a "green card" may now access Mythos.
It appears that Anthropic does not have internal controls to implement these restrictions in any form, so the only option was to shut Mythos down.
Penalties for ITAR violation can reach ten years in prison and a million dollars per violation. (I can post a link to those details if there is any interest.)
As long as Anthropic is a U.S. company, there is no escaping this.
https://fortune.com/2026/06/14/how-a-warning-from-amazon-led...
Like trying to move a missile industry from USA to EU.
Europe has extradition treaties, so the U.S. can force anyone in Europe back to the U.S. for criminal indictment who demonstrates inappropriate possession of this technology.
However, I think the US would treat this as treason (like they wouldn't want nuclear scientist to work for other nations).
Extremely silly of course, but entirely in line with all the other news currently coming out of the US ;)
doesn't seem to be a political meeting, but rather a technical one. Maybe they'll review the jailbreaks and demonstrate that can be replicated in any model out there?
How unsurprising.
Amodei has always been and always will be a creep. Unfortunately too many people here don’t want to hear it about their favourite billionaire, just like they didn’t want to hear it about all the other sociopaths that tech has minted in the last 20 years.
Like at what point do the weird and random Amodei smears start to seem like an orchestrated attempt?
Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better.
So here I am trying to give you a heads up.
I know of Sam Altman's shenanigans from way before OpenAI (I used to be on reddit a lot more when `sama` appeared over there) but I have no idea about Amodei.
Help us out because otherwise it really does read as yet another conspiracy theory on the internet.
US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then"
This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal.
I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic.
The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown.
Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time. I was expecting/hoping it'd be years away.
However given the events in the last few days it greatly increases my concern with building any product which can depend on an on an API which could go away for a number of my customers.
I've been experimenting with other open weight models hosted in favorable sovereign countries for a few months, but this accelerates something which was an experiment to now being a must-have.
I don't think it is going to be easy for any of the parties to repair this easily.
He is probably reviewing many exit options today.
It was my understanding that not even green card holders may access Mythos. Normally when restrictions like this are put in place, you need a exemption as a green card holder. A geen card is just a permit to live and work in the US. Its not the same as citizenship.
> Security Clearance: Green Card holders are generally prohibited from jobs that require high-level security clearances or sensitive government/military roles reserved exclusively for U.S. citizens.
How could restriction not be appropriate.
Please see HN rule #1, this is not the community for that kind of discourse.
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