After Trump administration clears Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, no Sam Altman’s OpenAI-like government stake on table

Days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent message to tech companies to hand over a stake to the government, a report has said that there are no ownership equity on the table for Anthropic.

This comes after a victory for the artificial intelligence (AI) startup after the Trump administration officially lifted its national security export bans on the company’s most advanced AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.Citing people familiar with the matter, news agency Reuters reported that the Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking stakes in the firm. It follows recent reports that rival lab OpenAI has been actively discussing handing a 5% corporate equity stake over to the US government to satisfy political scrutiny. This proposal from OpenAI comes as the AI labs are facing increasing scrutiny in Washington over their data center expansion, job impacts and cybersecurity risks. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have recently had their model launches delayed due to government review. Some Republicans and Trump advisers are pushing for tighter regulation of the sector.

Government lifts Anthropic’s national security ban

The US Department of Commerce officially withdrew the strict export controls it slapped on Anthropic on June 12.

At the time, the government had ordered the firm to suspend its rollout over fears that the cutting-edge models could be weaponised by military intelligence in rival nations like China and Russia.In a letter to Anthropic reviewed by CNBC, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed that “appropriate safeguards” are now successfully in place, allowing trusted enterprise partners and federal agencies to resume deployments.“We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow,” Anthropic announced in a statement on X, thanking users for their patience during the high-stakes dispute.To win back the government's blessing without sacrificing equity, Anthropic agreed to significantly improve its internal safety software.The company revealed it is redeploying Fable 5 with an aggressive new set of digital filters designed to automatically identify and block cyberattack tasks.