Woofun AI reports that negotiations between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Commerce concluded without resolution, leaving the global export ban on Claude Fable 5 intact. The emergency meeting held on June 15 in Washington addressed ongoing security concerns regarding potential jailbreaking vulnerabilities that could enable advanced network attacks. While Anthropic’s leadership, including Chief Compute Officer Tom Brown, argued that these risks were exaggerated, Commerce officials and researchers from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation remained unconvinced, insisting on comprehensive mitigation strategies.

Concurrently, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick joined the discussions remotely from the G7 Summit in France, maintaining direct communication with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Both executives are expected to hold face-to-face talks later this week at the summit venue. In response to the regulatory impasse, over 80 cybersecurity experts and executives from firms such as NVIDIA, Adobe, and Zoom signed an open letter on June 14, warning that the ban undermines U.S. cybersecurity posture and erodes its leadership in artificial intelligence.