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The week that changed AI: Inside Trump’s Anthropic crackdown, and how a phone call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy triggered the chaos
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The moment that triggered the Trump administration’s dramatic crackdown on Anthropic, and may completely reset the ground rules for U.S. regulation of AI, happened almost by accident.
Key facts
- By 10 p.m. that evening, Anthropic had taken Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline
- Fable 5, which Anthropic launched on June 9, was equipped with what it said were robust safeguards against cybersecurity risks
- Eastern Time on Friday, informing the company that it required government approval before making its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models available to any user abroad or any foreign national globally
- But the situation suddenly escalated when Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy happened to be on a pre-scheduled call with White House officials last Thursday, June 11, regarding an unrelated topic
Summary
Last week, researchers at Amazon were busy stress-testing Anthropic’s newly released Fable 5, a “safe” version of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model. The Amazon researchers testing Fable, however, discovered a “jailbreak” that they documented as allowing users to bypass safety rails and access information that could be used in a cyberattack. Jassy spoke to Bessent that same day. By Friday evening, four days after Fable’s launch, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick had hit Anthropic with unprecedented export controls, forcing the lab to pull its most powerful models.