{"slug": "eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud", "title": "EU cybersecurity agency to meet Anthropic under a US export cloud", "summary": "The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA is set to meet AI company Anthropic on Thursday, a meeting arranged before the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its advanced models, including for foreign nationals. The meeting, which involves Anthropic's offer to give ENISA early access to its Mythos model under Project Glasswing, now faces a conflict with US export restrictions, highlighting Europe's dependency on American AI capabilities.", "body_md": "*The European Union’s cybersecurity agency was due to meet Anthropic on Thursday, the European Commission confirmed, a meeting arranged before Washington made it considerably more awkward. ENISA, the EU’s cybersecurity body, had been invited to talks with the AI company that were set in motion weeks earlier, well ahead of the US export directive now hanging over them.*\n\nThe substance of the relationship is access. Anthropic had offered to let ENISA into Project Glasswing, an initiative that lets selected organisations test its Mythos model before wider release, which would make the agency the first European body to get such access.\n\nThe arrangement followed months of negotiation between the Commission and Anthropic, including Commission officials travelling to San Francisco in late May to work through terms. The meeting was a continuation of that, not a beginning.\n\nThen the ground shifted. The US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its most advanced models, including for foreign nationals, citing the risk they could reach military or intelligence users in countries of concern.\n\nThe directive lands directly on the ENISA arrangement: an offer to give a European agency early access to a frontier model, made in good faith, now collides with an American order restricting exactly that kind of access.\n\nThat collision is why Thursday matters more than a routine vendor meeting would. The Commission has confirmed the meeting is happening; what it has not detailed is how Anthropic squares an existing offer to a European partner with a fresh instruction from its own government to pull back.\n\nThe discussions, by several accounts, have shifted towards the mechanics of secure access arrangements, the question of how, if at all, ENISA can be given what it was promised without putting Anthropic on the wrong side of Commerce.\n\nFor Brussels, the episode is a sharp lesson in dependency. The EU has spent years building out its own AI and cybersecurity ambitions, and ENISA’s interest in Mythos reflects a desire to understand the most capable systems on the market.\n\nBut the most capable systems are American, and American export policy can now reach into a European agency’s access to them. The [export fight](https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-commerce-meeting-fable-mythos-crisis) that has consumed Anthropic in Washington is, in this meeting, exported to Brussels.\n\nAnthropic, for its part, is managing relationships in two directions at once. It is [racing towards an IPO](https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-anthropic-ai-risk-warnings-ipo-irony) while warning about AI risk, courting governments and enterprises globally while its own government tightens what it can sell and to whom.\n\nThe ENISA meeting is a small, concrete instance of that wider bind: a company trying to be a trusted partner to a European regulator under rules written elsewhere.\n\nThe episode also exposes how thin Europe’s options are. ENISA wanted access to Mythos precisely because frontier capability is concentrated in a handful of American labs, and the EU has no domestic equivalent to test against.\n\nThat dependence is the same one driving the bloc’s push for sovereignty in AI and cloud computing, and the Anthropic meeting is a live demonstration of why: a European agency’s ability to even evaluate the most capable systems can be revoked by a decision made in Washington.\n\nThe same dynamic is already reshaping how banks treat the technology, with [Wall Street institutions](https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-morgan-stanley-goldman-sachs-ipo-lead-banks) restricting Claude in sensitive jurisdictions even as they court the company elsewhere.\n\nFor Anthropic, the meeting is a test of whether a company can serve a foreign regulator and comply with its own government at once. The firm has spent the year [warning about AI risk while racing to IPO](https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-anthropic-ai-risk-warnings-ipo-irony), and has framed access programmes like Project Glasswing as good-faith engagement with the institutions that will help govern the technology.\n\nThe Commerce directive recasts that engagement as a potential export, and the secure-access discussions now under way are essentially an attempt to find a structure that satisfies both readings. Whether such a structure exists is, in effect, what Thursday is about.\n\nThe Commission has confirmed the meeting and the broad shape of the discussions; it has not said whether ENISA will end up inside Project Glasswing, or on what terms. For now, the meeting itself is the news, and the most telling thing about it is the directive it is being held under.\n\n## Get the TNW newsletter\n\nGet the most important tech news in your inbox each week.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud", "canonical_source": "https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud", "published_at": "2026-06-18 09:05:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 09:56:34.020314+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-research", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["ENISA", "Anthropic", "European Commission", "US Department of Commerce", "Project Glasswing", "Mythos", "San Francisco", "Brussels"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-cybersecurity-agency-to-meet-anthropic-under-a-us-export-cloud.jsonld"}}