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The Korean Telecom Giant At the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic's most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom's ties to China, those people said. Those concerns appear to have compo…
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The U.S. government did not push the switch off button because it scared him of a cyber security vulnerability. It did so because he was already nervous for another reason: South Korea’s largest telephone operator had unrestricted access to the model, and Washington suspected that access would ultimately reach China. Jailbreak was the perfect excuse to act. Amparo Babiloni explains in Xataka on June 19, citing sources close to the U.S. governmen…

For an AI model to have a security hole is on a Tuesday. That that hole is looking at Beijing from Seoul is already another level of paranoia. And that, just that, is what happened with Claude Mythos. The soap opera: jailbreak, yes, but with China in the backroom Last Saturday, the White House asked Anthropic to cut access to Fable 5 and Mythos for all non-American users. The official excuse: a jailbreak that allowed safeguards to be skipped. Bu…

The technological war between the United States and China has just risen. The White House has ordered Anthropic, Claude’s creator, to withdraw access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models — Fable 5 and Mythos — for any foreign user. The movement, as Wired advances, responds not only to a technical security failure, but to the direct suspicion that China was spying on the model’s guts through the South Korean operator SK Telecom. Ke…

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slashdot.org broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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