US Mythos restrictions unsettle AI safety institutes, South Korean official says
By Choonsik Yoo ( July 13, 2026, 07:00 GMT | Insight) -- Recent US restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's Mythos model have unsettled national AI safety institutes, with delegates at a Seoul meeting calling for earlier access to relevant US government information before similar actions are taken. South Korea's AI Safety Institute head Kim Myuhng-joo told MLex that the episode also highlights growing concerns that tighter US and Chinese controls over frontier AI could reshape global access to the technology and leave countries outside the leading group at a strategic disadvantage.Recent moves by the US administration to exert direct influence over how cutting-edge artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic's Mythos are released have caused unease among the world's leading national AI safety institutes, a South Korean official told MLex on Monday....
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