A recent Semafor report indicates that the White House’s export restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos may be due to worries that a China-linked group accessed the technology. If the Chinese government has obtained Mythos 5 or Fable 5, it could pose significant national security threats, including the risk of reverse engineering the AI model through distillation techniques. While the White House has not publicly confirmed these claims, and Trump advisor David Sacks’s comments on X did not mention China, these developments highlight ongoing tensions regarding AI security and control.
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