Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's Talks With U.S. Officials Led to Crackdown on Anthropic's AI Models
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared information with Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, that led to a government crackdown halting foreign access to Anthropic's most capable AI models, according to Hacker News. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon's cybersecurity research on Anthropic's Fable 5 model—showing it could be prompted to serve information useful for cyberattacks—prompted a White House export control directive. The administration subsequently blocked foreign nation-state use of the model, and Amazon has not yet commented on the report, The Verge noted.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared information with Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, that led to a government crackdown halting foreign access to Anthropic's most capable AI models (specifically the Fable 5 model). Amazon researchers had used prompts to get the model to reveal information that could aid cyber activities, triggering national security concerns and resulting in a sweeping restriction on foreign use of Anthropic's powerful AI tools.
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Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic's Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyber
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