Anthropic added a new security measure to get back into the Trump administration’s good graces. The payoff? Restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were lifted. Wired broke the story. It sounds like a technical update, but it’s pure political calculus.
Here’s what happened: an AI company retooled its moderation system to align with a political agenda — not to improve actual safety. Trump got compliance; Anthropic got market access. No debate on ethics, no independent audit. Just power.
For Europe and Italy, this is a wake-up call. If US tech giants decide their safety policies based on who occupies the White House, the EU AI Act becomes a hollow promise. Italian SMEs — the ones trying to use AI to boost revenue — will be caught in the middle: models designed for US rules, not European ones. Data flowing to American clouds, with weak privacy guarantees. We, at Meteora Web, work with Sicilian businesses that already struggle to achieve GDPR compliance with American tools. This story proves the gap: whoever holds political power writes the rules.
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Our position is clear
Safety is not a bargaining chip. A model that changes its moderation criteria to please a government is not trustworthy. Period. Europe must stop chasing US giants and build its own AI infrastructure — public, transparent, overseen by independent bodies. Otherwise, Italian SMEs will keep absorbing decisions made in Washington and paying the price in compliance costs and lost trust. We don’t need new regulations; we need to enforce the existing ones with real penalties for those who circumvent them.
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What can you do, if you develop or use AI in Italy? Two things. First: demand transparency on the moderation criteria of every model you adopt. If a vendor changes rules for political reasons, switch vendor. Second: invest in internal expertise. Too often we see companies outsourcing AI strategy to pre-packaged solutions without knowing where their data ends up. A consultant who can read a contract and a balance sheet is worth more than ten subscriptions to American tools. Digital sovereignty is built with knowledge, not with the latest discounted model.
