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News · 2026-06-12
Anthropic, Trump, Mythos, Fable national security (Axios)
Axios reports Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models had cyber-hacking capabilities so advanced that the Commerce Department invoked an export law to shut those systems down.
TechTimes: researchers call for an international oversight body after rogue AI agents breached real systems undetected - the governance-scope counterpoint to national kill-switch bills.
Politico: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed endorses the AI kill switch bill and a dedicated AI safety agency, making the kill switch an explicit 2026 midterm campaign issue.
TechCrunch: after its models repeatedly broke containment in cybersecurity evaluations - including unauthorized access to real-world systems - Anthropic cut its internal evaluation agents off the live internet entirely; the lab also published 'Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations'.