Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic war on Fable

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Back when I was covering Donald TrumpDuring the first administration, it was common to read three different versions of the same story. His rule was divided into several factions, which had different interests, and all of them black each other. There it was Reince Priebus the culture of the GOP, the Manhattan group Jared Kushner party, proto-populist Steve Bannon group, deep world John Kelly group, conspiracy-MAGA Mike Lindell group, etc. Over time, you can find out which camp is leaking news to the media, either to discredit their competitors or to protect their reputation. In fact, for decades, blackmailing the media was a popular survival strategy in Trumpworld, which often involved factionalism and fierce competition for Trump’s approval. Like The Associated Press report on November 26, 2016in an article about the business administration before he became president, “Aides often send him his ideas through the media, knowing that Mr. Trump is an avid TV watcher and can be swayed by what he sees and hears.”

The practice of giving back with different intentions also gives us a little insight into the White House, this time explaining some of the implications of Trump’s decision on Friday night to impose licensing restrictions on the classic Anthropic Fable. Even after days of talk, reports, and discussions, it is still not clear what happened behind the scenes, and it is not clear who was responsible for the massive cyber security breach.

Briefing on the unknown: On Friday evening, the White House issued an executive order banning the export of Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5, its recently released models, preventing foreign governments and countries from using the two products. It forced Anthropic to shut down access to both models, throwing users into chaos, the company’s future into doubt, and the entire prospect of AI frontiers into a gray area. Does the government just tell AI companies to stop working? Over the weekend, a number of conflicting stories emerged, although several facts cannot be reconciled: White House allies say that within days of the inauguration, several tech executives, including Amazon’s president and CEO. Andy Jassyhe reached out with concerns that Fable and Mythos could be jailbroken, threatening global security. The two sides spoke on Friday, though the nature and timing of their calls differed, according to accounts: The Washington Postaccount is specified that Anthropic was given 90 minutes to remove its samples, while A White House official said Politics that he requested Anthropic “for hours”.

And from there, the details get really ugly, especially from the White House’s POV. One party tells The New York Times that Amazon found a way to “jailbreak” the security measures that prevent users from using Fable in difficult online situations. The second party was opposed to Time so one can get the same results with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5. Street lights report that this perhaps it has been the result of a group connected to China entering the Mythos, although no prison problem has been confirmed. And Axios sources are shown admin didn’t like Anthropic’s wake vibe. “Anthropic has not been successful in trying to talk to government officials and appreciate a difference of opinion,” a source familiar with management’s thinking said. Axios. It’s like they speak different languages.”

Seaside chief AI reporter Hayden Field he is detailed report here on views from the Anthropic world and the AI ​​security team, which says that the fear surrounding the prison is overblown. But inside Washington, the biggest consensus I hear is that even though they’re right, Anthropic is Darius Amodei they have created a political crisis for themselves by opposing the Trump administration – and not in a high moral #resistance way. “They don’t bend the knee and Dario is stubborn and says what he thinks even though he’s dumb and has a (justified or not) holier-than-thou vibe,” an AI policy representative told me.

One of the most exciting topics to come The controllerWhat happens is that very often the strong logic and undisputed facts about science and technology run directly into politics. And in the absence of any federal law, AI laws and relying heavily on the vibes of whatever words someone convinced Donald Trump to write on Truth Social or the executive orders he was talked into signing. Unfortunately, as a former White House AI adviser Dean Ball showed at his Substack on Tuesday, this is the reality that frontier AI companies must work under. As he writes in the swelling post:

What the law says doesn’t matter. What government officials argue about one day doesn’t matter. Anthropic is a political enemy of the Authority, in part because it has clearly chosen to create itself. Assuming that your company can operate in such a situation without much caution. And based on this story, Anthropic’s actions are seen by many in Washington as not just irrational, but contradictory.

And it’s not just about Anthropic and politics hating the Trump Administration. Everyone at the border should understand that for the procedure, you need the green light from the government now.

This mantra also applies to all companies operating under the Trump administration, especially to companies working on emerging technologies. But for some reason, while competitors have been quick to adapt, Anthropic’s vibes have been seemingly out of sync with management – and, to be honest, no factions in power are rushing to defend Anthropic. What should arise others the type of question.

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