UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly asked the Trump administration for a carve-out so British nationals and companies could regain access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models. The answer was no. A Trump administration official told The NY-Post that giving even a G7 ally an exemption would be “completely illogical.” This is no longer just about whether Fable or Mythos can be jailbroken. It is about whether frontier AI models are now being treated like strategic national-security assets. Even America’s closest allies may not get access if Washington decides the model is too sensitive. The US is still negotiating directly with Anthropic and Dario Amodei over how to resolve the ban. But the message to the rest of the world is already clear: access to the frontier may no longer be a commercial question. It may become a geopolitical privilege.

While access to frontier AI stands curtailed. So, what happens now?

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Vancouver stadium is legit man

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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All I now see is Gemini winning. Good enough model, far from an actual risk (stupid at anything of importance) and remarkably well monetized.

One wonders, what happens to the market on Monday, when the entire argument about frontier AI availability is suddenly irrelevant.

Think of all the jobs USG just saved. :)

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We’ve reached peak Canadiana here at the March to the Match and arrived at Princes’ Gate near the stadium. A man wearing a cowboy hat, fur coat, carrying a Tim Hortons whips everyone into a frenzy as they finish singing O Canada. It’s 25 C and brilliantly sunny.

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They’ve given themselves 6 months to sign a peace deal or things to normalize vis a vis Iran / Hormuz. And space for mid-terms. Since headline is all energy but core is at 0.2, so no rate hikes in June. That’s left to December / post mid-terms.

God damn 😮