Amazon CEO Reportedly Raised Anthropic Fable Concerns Prior to U.S. Order Forcing Models Offline
Anthropic said the government ordered limits after a minor jailbreak concern, and the company disputed that the flaw enabled high-level cyberattacks.
- On Friday, Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic shut down access to its new Fable and Mythos models after authorities imposed export controls citing national security concerns.
- Officials issued the directive after identifying a potential bypass of Fable safeguards, though authorities provided few details regarding the unspecified security risks.
- While Anthropic argued the vulnerability was minor and present in Similar models, the company criticized the government's action for lacking transparency and technical grounding.
- White House technology adviser David Sacks said a trusted partner identified the issue, but Anthropic declined to perform the requested fixes, forcing the export control.
- The Trump administration intends to lift the export control and permit Anthropic to re-release Fable and Mythos once the security issue is resolved.
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Why Claude Fable 5 Was Banned Worldwide Just 72 Hours After Becoming the Most Powerful AI Ever Released to the Public
Anthropic had barely finished celebrating the launch of Claude Fable 5 — its most powerful AI model ever made available to the public — when the US government ordered it gone. Just 72 hours after the model's release on 9 June, the Commerce Department issued an emergency export control directive that forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and its restricted sibling, Mythos 5, for every user worldwide. The directive arrived at 5:21 PM ET on Friday, 1…
The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.
Trump administration urged to ease restrictions on Anthropic AI models
A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals, saying the move could help U.S. adversaries more than...
Anthropic Sends Lobbyists to D.C. After Trump Yanks Top AI Models
Senior technical staff from Anthropic are in Washington this week meeting with White House officials after the Trump administration ordered the company Friday to cut off foreign nationals from its two most advanced artificial intelligence models, sources confirmed Monday. The meetings, reported by The Hill, follow a rapidly escalating standoff between the San Francisco AI firm and the administration over national security oversight of frontier A…
'Fix this code.' The three little words behind the U.S. government decision that shut down Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models
The security vulnerability that led the U.S. government to impose export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is a simple technique that involves just three simple words: fix this code.That’s according a detailed blog post from Katie Moussouris, the founder and CEO of Luta Security. Anthropic had asked Moussouris, who has held two government advisory roles on cybersecurity and previously worked as a cybersecurity expert at Microso…
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier AI - its government also wields power over who gets to use it. The Trump administration's action…
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