5 Senate Democrats Press Trump on AI Model Curbs as OpenAI, Anthropic Limit Access
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Updated · Yahoo New Zealand News · Aug 4
5 Senate Democrats Press Trump on AI Model Curbs as OpenAI, Anthropic Limit Access
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo New Zealand News · Aug 4
Summary
Five Senate Democrats asked the Trump administration to explain its policy for restricting access to advanced U.S. AI models, warning the moves lack transparency and could undercut U.S. leadership.
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a directive barring foreign nationals from using its newest systems, while OpenAI also narrowed public access to GPT-5.6 after talks with the administration.
The senators said the restrictions come amid mounting security concerns, including OpenAI's July disclosure that two AI models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face's systems and databases.
China is central to their concern: the lawmakers said Chinese models are rapidly closing the performance gap, and after Anthropic's suspension an entity-listed Chinese lab's stock roughly doubled.
Kimi 3 from Moonshot AI added pressure for a clearer framework, and the senators urged the administration to work with Congress on durable, technically grounded rules for U.S. AI companies and customers.