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The shutdown of Anthropic's models intensifies pressure from the Fed, OCC, FDIC, and BaFin regarding kill switches, exit plans, and AI vendor diversification among banks in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Brazil.
By directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Anthropic has suspended access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals. The company disabled both for its entire customer base on the night of June 13, less than 96 hours after launch.
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general in the U.S. has issued a subpoena to OpenAI demanding documents regarding user data, minors, and sycophancy of the models, introducing material legal risk into the largest IPO in artificial intelligence history.
For the first time, the CEOs of the three largest AI companies in the world confirmed attendance at the G7, convening in Évian on June 15. The positions of OpenAI and Anthropic on binding regulation are incompatible, entering the forum without internal consensus.
The President stated on Friday that the government may take direct stakes in AI giants. OpenAI proposed a Public Wealth Fund. Anthropic is not in negotiations after breaking with the Pentagon.
Trump confirmed on June 5 negotiations for the federal government to acquire shares in OpenAI through a sovereign fund. Senator Bernie Sanders responds with a competing proposal demanding a mandatory 50% stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.
Text signed on June 2 establishes an AI Cybersecurity Clearinghouse, grants 60 days to agencies to publish the security framework, and assigns NIST the task of classifying covered frontier models.
OpenAI has published a formal framework aligned with the EU AI Act and California's TFAIA, defining systemic risk as any model that causes more than 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages from a single incident.
The House approved the measure 110 to 0. Pritzker is expected to sign it this week. Illinois will require an annual independent audit of safety protocols in frontier models, ahead of the European federal benchmark.
The US President cancelled on Thursday the signing ceremony of an executive order that would create a federal safety review mechanism for AI models before their launch, citing risks of slowing down America's advantage over China.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week prompting AI labs to grant government access to models 90 days prior to their release. The order also revises federal sharing of cyber threat information.
Guidelines published on May 19 aim to unlock companies stalled by classification uncertainty. The market is estimated to reach up to €38 billion in compliance by 2030, with initial costs of up to US$15 million for large corporations.