Fortune and Semafor report that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised the alarm with senior White House officials after Amazon researchers used a series of prompts to extract restricted cyberattack information from Anthropic's Fable 5. That warning, combined with suspicions that a China-linked group had already accessed the Mythos-class model, reportedly drove the Commerce Department's unprecedented export control order. Anthropic was given just 90 minutes' notice before the restrictions took effect. According to The Information, Anthropic's senior leaders flew to Washington on June 15 for talks, but both sides left without a resolution and are still working to find one. The episode marks the first time U.S. export controls have been used to pull a widely deployed commercial AI model offline, and has sparked calls for sovereign AI infrastructure across Europe and Canada.
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China Access Fears Behind Fable 5 Shutdown
Amazon CEO's jailbreak warning and suspected Chinese firm access triggered the unprecedented Anthropic export controls.