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with no warning
Reporting indicates Anthropic did get advance notice before the export-control letter, including same-day calls and earlier threats of export controls.
Full reasoning
Multiple contemporaneous reports contradict the claim that the government acted with no warning.
- Axios (June 13) reported that administration officials spoke with Anthropic for hours early Friday trying to get the company to pull or pause Fable before the export-control letter was sent.
- Axios (June 15) then reported that the administration had first threatened Anthropic with export controls a couple of weeks earlier.
- Semafor likewise reported that, according to David Sacks's account, the administration notified Anthropic of the jailbreak and Anthropic allegedly refused to fix it before the controls were imposed.
Those accounts may leave open disputes about how much warning Anthropic got or whether the warning was adequate, but they do not support the categorical statement that there was "no warning."
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- How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
Administration officials spoke with Anthropic for hours early Friday, trying to get the company to pull the latest model; those efforts were unsuccessful, an official said.
- "They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline
The administration first threatened Anthropic with export controls a couple of weeks ago after learning that its cutting-edge Mythos model was made available to an entity in a foreign country with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to the White House.
- White House move to limit Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access to Mythos
Sacks said that the government received a warning that Fable 5 could be jailbroken. When the Trump Administration notified Anthropic of the jailbreak, Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said the jailbreak was not a serious risk and refused to fix it, Sacks alleged.