Washington, June 26 -- Weeks after Washington ordered Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI models offline worldwide, the US assured India that technology access, once granted, will not be abruptly withdrawn - a commitment India's IT secretary S Krishnan said came from US officials during talks with India. Krishnan, speaking to reporters after a bilateral meeting with US under secretary of state for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg on Wednesday, said Washington had sought to explain the thinking behind its decision to suspend Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models globally, while separately committing that access already extended to trusted partners would hold. "On the AI models, the American concern is fundamentally how these models could potentially be used, how powerful they are and what could be the potential impact. They were looking at a review mechanism for some of this internally before they are released. But I think there was an understanding - and something they certainly mentioned - that access to technology, once it is provided, will not be cut off. That was an assurance," Krishnan said, adding that India would have to wait and see how things played out in practice. The exchange carries weight for India. Anthropic had expanded its restricted Project Glasswing programme to India in early June, giving Indian organisations access to the Mythos Preview model for cybersecurity testing - among the earliest tranche of countries to receive it. Days later, Washington's export control directive forced Anthropic to disable both Mythos 5 and the public-facing Fable 5 for every user worldwide, India included, after the government said it had learned of a possible "jailbreak" of the model. Anthropic quickly complied with the US government order, saying it could not reliably separate foreign nationals from other users to comply with the order any other way. "These are very sensitive national security discussion, said Helberg....