The US and Europe have discussed creating a “trusted partner” scheme for cutting-edge AI models, days after the Trump administration banned Anthropic from supplying its latest tool to foreign customers, reports FT

"US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick had talked about the proposal with European diplomats on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France, according to people familiar with the matter." "OpenAI, whose GPT 5.5 model is deemed to be similarly advanced [to Anthropic's Mythos], was in the process of giving access to the EU’s cyber security agency Enisa and Nato, according to people familiar with the process."