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From a source familiar with the situation—
Anthropic had verified the model and they were to bring it in and they refused to do it. They are bad actors and irresponsible.
This issue was raised in the wake of the release of Fable from multiple vantage points, and the crux of the issue was the lack of seriousness that Anthropic was applying to it.
Had Anthropic taken it seriously and, rather than dismissing as isolated, moved to fix or pause access, this would have never happened.
But they were overly confident in their standing which put our nation at risk, especially as diffusion is a serious concern.
This happened due to a lack of cooperation with USG to protect our nations security. We expect others to ensure cyber capabilities are properly controlled to keep this tool from bad actors.
Many companies called the admin with concerns (nearly half a dozen, not just Amazon).
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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If this were correct, productivity growth should have crashed following the 1924 immigration reforms. Instead, we witnessed explosive growth.
.@NatashaRSarin of @The_Budget_Lab claims that "Net migration to the U.S. dropped by more than half in 2025 [y/y] spelling an upcoming drop in...productivity." Cites findings that "Lower immigration changes the...population in ways [including age] that reduce entrepreneurship."
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Liberals are worried that Musk might use his “extreme concentration of wealth” to do what exactly? Explore space? Electrify automobile transportation? Advance free speech on digital platforms?
What’s the threat here?
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The “money” is, in fact, moving through the economy. SpaceX’s IPO raised money for the company to spend. Musk’s wealth is mostly in stakes in his companies.
They really think he’s got a Scrooge McDuck pool of gold, don’t they?
I am not entitled to his money.
Accumulating more wealth than you can ever spend in a single lifetime (which he has done millions of times over) is bad for society. Money that could be moving through the economy and local communities to help improve lives is now removed.
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A trillionaire does not represent an extreme concentration of wealth and isn’t a threat to democracy.
How exactly does Musk’s wealth threaten democracy?
To the contrary, Musk made this app much more friendly to democracy.
Trillionaires shouldn't exist and neither should billioniares. Tax every penny in net worth over $999 million at 100%. We can have extreme wealth concentration or a democracy but we can't have both at the same time. Pick one.
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I don’t even understand the claim.
If a bunch of rich people are willing to value the companies you have large stakes in at levels that your stakes are worth a trillion dollars, why is that not moral justification enough.
Should they be forced to pay less for their shares?
There is no way to morally justify having a trillion dollars
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John Carney retweeted
This aged well
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Elon Musk deserves every single penny he has made.
And I hope he becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
He’s using his wealth to help blind people see and paralyzed people walk. I’d rather that money stay in his hands than go to Elizabeth Warren, who’d likely see it wasted on fraud in Somalia or some other government boondoggle.
Yes, he has a massive slice of the pie — but he’s made the entire pie dramatically bigger for everyone on Earth. That’s why we enjoy a higher quality of life than any civilization in human history.
Capitalism isn’t just worth defending, it’s worth celebrating.
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If we taxed just 10% of Elon Musk’s wealth and gave it to me, I’d be really rich. Think about that.
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John Carney retweeted
“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL.”
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In this week's Friday newsletter—we call it the Breitbart Business Digest Weekly Wrap—I introduced something new: a weekly scorecard from financial markets.
Because of deadlines, it is Thursday-Thursday. I hope people find it useful and informative.
Was a bear to build.
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Here's the fine print. Still looking for way to improve it. So if you have suggestions—different assets, indexes, etc—to include, let me know!
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"Allowing."
What is happening in the UK is entirely the result of allowing the Daily Mail, GB News, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and all the others to spew their bile to hundeds of thousands every single day.
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If you are single in NYC, the Knicks game is a blessing. There's really no better time to meet people in NYC than when one of our local teams makes it into the finals or World Series. A city full of joyful people gathering and celebrating.
Get moving lads and lasses.
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BASED.
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Just saying…
No Democrat has won the White House this century without a Biden on the ticket.
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I don't know if @pmarca agrees but this is actually the correct position.
Prior restraint, which is what the Biden folks were proposing, was a terrible idea and contrary to our principles. Export controls are a good idea and 100% in keeping with America's way of doing things.
Jun 13
Marc Andreesen said that Biden’s requirement that frontier AI developers tell the government about their safety practices was an existential threat to US AI, but he thinks global export controls on US AI models is “based” if they’re against people he hates/missed the series A of
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The worst thing normie progressives have insisted on during the second Trump administration has been the idea that if American taxpayers are not funding whatever the leftist NGO complex demands, we're murdering people.
Fuck off.
Jun 12
The USAID cuts are one of the worst things America has ever done in its history
It could have even been a slow phase out to let non profits take its place. But instead, it was purposely chaotic. They purposely made the state of it ambiguous before suddenly pulling all funding
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We should do a Swiss-style referendum on this. Let the American people vote on whether to keep sending billions to the left NGO complex.
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