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Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
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CEO Andy Jassy spoke with officials about security concerns shortly before the export control directive.
Key facts
- The export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy
- It’s not a jailbreak.” Former Commerce Department official Kate Koren speculated to the WSJ that the White House’s dislike of Anthropic may have influenced the decision
- CEO Andy Jassy spoke with officials about security concerns shortly before the export control directive
- Anthropic disputed the government’s characterization of the issue as a “jailbreak
Summary
The export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. Shortly after Jassy shared the company’s findings with the government, it made the call to block its use by foreign nationals. Anthropic disputed the government’s characterization of the issue as a “jailbreak.” It argued that many of the same vulnerabilities could be discovered using other publicly available models, including GPT 5.5. Anthropic and the Trump administration have been at odds for some time over the company’s refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to power lethal autonomous weapons.