Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis

SK Telecom had access to Anthropic’s AI model Claude Mythos through the company’s partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in. US officials saw ties between the South Korean conglomerate and China.

The White House told Anthropic to cut off SK Telecom’s access. The company complied right away. SK Telecom denied any China connections to a Korean newspaper. But the company is part of the broader SK Group, which has major business interests in China and held a stake in the state-owned Chinese carrier China Unicom until 2009. Things got worse shortly after, when Amazon and other companies flagged security flaws in Fable 5 that could be used to bypass safety restrictions. Together, the two incidents caused the White House to lose confidence in Anthropic and force both models completely offline.AdDEC_D_Incontent-1Ad TopStories Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic’s Fable model KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons Don’t MissWhat Matters Stay in the loop on AI. Clear, useful, no fluff. Follow The Decoder for AI news, background stories and expert analyses.