Anthropic is seeking to ease Trump administration export controls that blocked foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing its most powerful AI models, after the company shut down Mythos and Fable to comply with the order. The Wall Street Journal reported Anthropic met administration officials this weekend and sent a top technical team to Washington to try to win relief. The restrictions, which followed security concerns cited in reports by The Wall Street Journal and Axios, have widened into a broader debate over U.S. control of frontier AI systems, centralized model access and whether other countries will accelerate AI self-reliance.