Trump Administration Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Claude Chatbot

The Trump administration lifted restrictions on Anthropic's Claude chatbot on July 3, 2026, completing a rollback begun June 26 when Mythos 5 was reoffered to vetted companies and government partners. Bloomberg reported the ban risked helping China's open-source AI models by leaving a competitive gap. The Mythos ban itself remained as of June 26.