New Delhi, June 15 -- Anthropic has dispatched senior technical staff to Washington to hold face-to-face talks with White House officials, as the company races to resolve a deepening dispute that has taken its most advanced artificial intelligence models offline for users across the globe, a person familiar with the development told Axios.

The crisis began on 12 June, when the US Department of Commerce issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to block access to its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals both inside the United States and abroad. Because reliably filtering users by nationality was technically unfeasible, Anthropic took the decision to disable both models entirely for all users worldwide...