How SK Telecom got pulled into Anthropic's Mythos export-control controversy

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

WIRED investigates the link between Anthropic's Mythos chip project and South Korea's SK Telecom. SK Telecom, an Anthropic investor and cloud partner, may have been used as a conduit to bypass US chip export controls to China. The article details the partnership terms and money flows, but the key question of legal liability remains unresolved. I'd discount the 'telecom giant deliberately helping an AI firm evade sanctions' narrative for now—the evidence points more to a compliance gray zone than explicit collusion.

Why it matters: WIRED moves the Mythos story from 'does it exist' to 'who's funding it,' with SK Telecom's dual role making the compliance gray zone tangible. The ding: no legal conclusion yet — it's a suspicious structure, not a smoking gun.