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All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available,” and that Claude Mythos 5 had the same underlying model, “but with the safeguards lifted in some areas.”
TL;DR
- Anthropic's new AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, were ordered by the US government to have foreign access blocked on June 12th.
- The order followed concerns, reportedly from Amazon, about the models potentially being used for cyberattacks.
- Anthropic complied by shutting down access for all users, though they disagreed that a narrow potential jailbreak warranted a recall.
- Reports suggest fears that a group linked to China may have accessed the models, posing a national security risk.
- The government's action is seen as a demonstration of US control over frontier AI and a catalyst for nations to develop their own AI capabilities.