All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
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The White House ordered Anthropic on June 12 to block all foreign-national access to its newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after those models launched on June 9. Anthropic responded by taking Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for everyone because it could not reliably separate foreign nationals from U.S. users and employees. Anthropic says it is confident the models will be re-enabled "in the coming days" while Commerce Department concerns center on potential national security risks such as jailbreaks and software security capabilities.
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A sudden export-control style directive forced an immediate, broad shutdown of flagship models, creating urgent operational and policy fallout.
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If you think export controls only slow hardware, think again: the White House just forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone, and that sets a dangerous precedent for software-first AI companies.
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- Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jail
TechCrunch AIJun 19 - Nobody’s talking about the real precedent in the Fable 5 ban: a nationality-based access rule that geography literally can’t enforce
TL;DR: Last Friday the US government ordered Anthropic to block all “foreign nationals” — including non-citizens inside the US — from using its new Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Since you can’t separate a green-card holder in California from a citizen in real time, Anthropic shut the models down for everyone. It’s the first time export controls have hit an AI model itself rather than the chips that
r/artificialJun 15 - Anthropic confident of re-enabling Mythos, Fable 5 access 'in coming days'
Anthropic is confident in re-enabling access to its frontier AI models soon, according to an executive at the U.S. AI giant, following the White House’s directive to block Mythos and Fable 5 for foreign nationals. “We are very confident that in the coming days, the models will become available again,” said Anthropic's Managing Director of International Chris Ciauri during a press conference
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