STATEMENT: Late last week, the federal government imposed export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models, citing national security concerns. The government action reportedly bans Anthropic from allowing foreign governments, foreign companies, and foreign individuals from using these systems. The directive, which reportedly came in the form of a letter from Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to Anthropic, is still not public. In response, Anthropic shut down access to these systems for all users, regardless of nationality or location. The government’s demand that Anthropic effectively shut down its models to comply with the export controls threatens core First Amendment rights. Artificial intelligence models are expressive tools, and their creation and use fall within the First Amendment’s protection. Mythos and Fable — the company’s cutting-edge tools made publicly available only last week — reflect deliberate expressive choices by Anthropic about how to train and weight these models, and what guardrails to create and maintain. Once in a user’s hands, this technology provides the ability to gather, create, and share information. Like any tool, AI has both lawful and unlawful applications. But the government has offered no public explanation as to why export controls were justified. By demanding Anthropic eliminate access solely for foreign users — a functional impossibility, per the company — the government is exercising the kind of “kill switch” on artificial intelligence we have seen repressive regimes abroad use on the internet. By leaving the public in the dark as to the specific threat identified and the statutory authority invoked to address it, the government’s dramatic action functions as an arbitrary abuse of power. The export controls serve as a prior restraint or a licensing system, requiring Anthropic to receive government approval as a condition of operating expressive systems. If left unchecked, the administration’s assertion of control would allow it to censor models that contradict the government's preferred views or punish developers who oppose the administration. And other AI companies and users are now forced to grapple with uncertainty regarding what they may develop, deploy, and engage with without crossing the administration’s invisible line. The administration’s action follows President Trump making plain his hostility to Anthropic, calling it a “radical left, woke” company, a stance shared by members of his cabinet. Last March, the administration deemed Anthropic insufficiently "patriotic" over model guardrails it disagreed with — ultimately designating it a "supply chain risk," again citing national security grounds. But simply invoking national security does not immunize government officials from their constitutional obligations or give them carte blanche to punish speech. Heavy-handed, arbitrary, behind-the-scenes governmental bullying is anathema to our free society, in any form. And its unacceptability is at its apex when directed to an endeavor that is inherently expressive, as is the creation and use of tools like Fable and Mythos.

nobody wants to hear this but the classical NASA systems engineering is the perfect model for developing code with LLMs. people try to approximate this with planning modes, but if you’re explicit in your docs it’s never been easier to build, test, and verify complex codebases.

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BREAKING: First alleged images of President Trump LEAKED from Walter Reed Hospital! Do you think this is real?

my friends in the healthiest relationships generally defy what people say about relationships on here - they split costs 50/50ish often - they dated for 3 years before getting married - usually highly educated - no stay at home parent, both successful professionals

who tf you think this is then??

this probably feels so good if you're an atmosphere

the great corporate monopolies of america should step up and fund ten times more basic research & academic science to replace whatever grants are now missing from NSF budget, each with their own capital allocation ideology of course

luke farritor is being demonized because he is a demon. there are thousands of people who are dead because he killed them. if he’s a truly a brilliant, compassionate & sensitive man this article is the least of his concerns, the largest of which will be living with what he’s done

requiring Waymos to have drivers does not go far enough. every time you hit play on Spotify, you must pay a live band to perform the song in front of you. every time you use a dishwasher, you must pay a human dishwasher to wash your dishes for you.

your dumb cultural fertility takes will always be utterly destroyed by the fact that fertility rates are also dropping in Thailand, Jamaica, and Cuba. and it isn't because they want to travel before having kids, nor is it because they go to concerts!

A hidden fire‑safety rule is quietly adding $1  million to the price of many new apartment buildings. Crazy part?  The gear it mandates has been used exactly once in a real US fire. Let’s unpack this 👇

recently ive employed a meditation technique called the 'mind cigarette' in which i try, as vividly as i can, to imagine myself smoking a cigarette. and it works. not just for any nicotine craving but also to reduce anxiety and calm the blood

are you ready for a world where you have to take care of your kids, your aging parents with medical issues, and also work 9-5?

nobody's stopping you? scientists would trip over themselves to reproduce your results if you can invent something new in your garage. go do it

this is an effective shutdown of the US space program.

evolution went through all that trouble coming up strategies to make offspring more genetically different from parents (eg horizontal gene transfer and sexual reproduction), only for the dumbest people online to get scared that their kids will be too genetically different

if you think declining birthrates are a problem but this video makes you mad, then you're unserious and your "solutions" should be disregarded!