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A total hit job by the gov't.
NEW: Inside the 24-hrs before WH slapped export controls on Anthropic
- Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about Fable jailbreak to Trump admin
- Friday AM, Sean Cairncross, Bessent, Susie etc. held WH call to discuss
- Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat.
- When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett.
-Amodei tried to clear up what he assumed was a misunderstanding. He defended the guardrails and distinguished between universal and non-universal jailbreak
- Cairncross and Bessent were unmoved and asked Amodei to take down Fable and work with the admin to fix the vulnerabilities. (A WH official said Amazon’s findings were run past the NSA and they felt they had “proof.”)
- Amodei asked for more time and info, but he made no commitments to pull the model
- Bessent told Amodei directly at one point that he was making a “bad decision”
- By Friday evening, the Trump admin imposed its export controls.
- “Export controls were a last resort after begging them for hours to work with us,” senior WH official said.
W/ @cheyennehaslett
politico.com/news/2026/06/13…
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Explain how we got to this level of government overreach without knowing who made the call to ban Fable?
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Totally unaware of what has happened in the last 3 months! He's drinking his own Kool-Aid.
Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever.
Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸
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Kind of disgusting to use the American flag for a bonehead move.
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Now it's sus that he bothers to chime in the debate when the commerce dept just banned Fable because it was too dangerous.
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Yet more BS from the dude that is supposed to advise the USG on AI. He writes like an outsider looking in. It's as if he wasn't involved in the final call. I want the names of those who made the decision. I'm guessing someone totally unqualified.
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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It's an obvious tell that @DavidSacks didn't mention who made the call! Nobody has the guts to be accountable.
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A case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Reminds me of the Hegseth situation.
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Dystopian
🚨 WTF?! Al Jazeera confirms 77,000 Japanese citizens were found dead alone in their homes last year, some undiscovered for months!
The crisis is so catastrophic that a yogurt delivery company is now the frontline survival network to check if the elderly have collapsed!
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The obvious downstream consequence of this is that even Americans will need security clearance to access the most advanced AI. Advanced AI will be gate-kept.
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Put differently, someone else decides whether you can have access to higher intelligence. Does this even seem fair?
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Quite interesting that AI firms may be nationalized yet social media firms are not.
Jun 13
Parsing this evening's events:
- The U.S. government approved the release of Fable 5 to the public, clearly under the presumption that the model's cybersecurity capabilities cannot be accessed by hackers, authoritarian regimes, etc.
- Recently (today?), "another company" showed the U.S. government that a jailbreak of Fable 5 *is possible*. Yes, a minor jailbreak - but how can a non-technical government official be assured that there aren't also other, more dangerous, jailbreaks in this model that won't be discovered by the CCP?
- Anthropic states, completely correctly, that: "We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider. Every safeguard used in the industry is vulnerable to non-universal jailbreaks (which can elicit some cyber information in specific circumstances), and it is likely that universal jailbreaks will eventually be found in the future. We stated this clearly when we released Fable 5."
- My best guess is that the U.S. government did not fully realize this at the time when the release of Fable 5 was approved.
- Per Axios, the government contacted Anthropic and asked to "pause releasing the... models but was unsuccessful" - i.e., Anthropic told the government to pound sand.
- Per Axios, this "prompt[ed] the export control letter".
- Per Axios, the U.S. government is *NOT* looking to restrict access to Fable to U.S. nationals forever. "The model needs to remain locked down until the U.S. governent's national security apparatus is hardened", which "could happen in a few weeks".
- I interpret Anthropic's reaction as challenging the government: "we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles."
If the Axios article is correct, I do not think any other model providers have anything to fear based solely on this evening's events, because: (1) they would hopefully be smarter than downright rejecting a request by the U.S. government to pause releasing a model, and (2) they will be required anyway under the recent executive order to give the U.S. government at least 30 days to test the model for cybersecurity capabilities - during which time the U.S. government would also be able to shore up its own cybersecurity defenses with the same model.
I remain extremely concerned that actions by one particular U.S. lab over the last few months might be moving us closer and closer to the scenario where at least that lab - and potentially all others - will be nationalized.
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As a result of being a startup, Anthropic's best models (and likely OpenAI's) are banned by the US gov't. Meanwhile, Google, which does not have the same pressure to always have the best model, continues to gain market share. It's as if they understood where this was all heading.
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Jun 13
Today's US commerce ban on Mythos and Fable should not have been a surprise. Called this scenario several years ago:
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In the future, we'll be sheltering our GPUs under the floorboards! For now, be blessed that you can own them without persecution! ;-)
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Jun 13
Mythos 5 disabled for ALL customers?!
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 12
A pathology of skills development is to hard-code the process and suppress adaptability. It's as if we forgot why we use agents in the first place!
Everyone thinks AI coding tools set founders free.
Watch what people actually build with them: rules, approvals, process, layers. The same cage, assembled faster.
The tool that can scaffold anything in an afternoon will scaffold your bureaucracy in an afternoon too.
Speed of construction is speed of calcification. Build the thing that lets you create new things: experiences that didn’t happen before.
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Interesting model for decentralized production. x.com/HarperWood6401/status/…
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