India, June 14 -- Anthropic's decision to abruptly disable two of its most advanced AI models just days after their launch was unprecedented, especially as it came in response to a US government order restricting access to Americans only.

But according to a report by Politico, the White House spent much of Friday trying to persuade Anthropic to voluntarily withdraw its recently launched AI model, Fable, as US officials feared that its safety guardrails could be bypassed in ways that posed national security risks.

The effort ultimately failed, leading the administration to impose export controls that effectively disabled the company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models only days after their public release.

Anthropic had launched the new models...