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At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the incident offered a sobering reminder that the US not only dominates frontier AI - its government also wields power over who gets to use it. The Trump administration's action was swift, sweeping, and imposed with little warning or explanation. The unprecedented shutdown of the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models - which were already subject to safeguards limiting their use in " … Read the full story at The Verge.
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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.” According to reports, the order came after conversations between Amazon and the White House about researchers saying they found ways to get Fable 5 to serve information that could be used in cyberattacks. Anthropic responded by shutting access to both models for all customers, saying, “We are complying with the government’s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed
The export controls on Anthropic's AI models could hinder U.S. cybersecurity efforts and boost open-source alternatives, impacting industry dynamics. The post Cyber leaders urge US to lift curbs on Anthropic’s security models appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Anthropic has been hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that subscribers paying up to $200 per month for premium Claude plans have received significantly less usage than the company’s marketing materials suggested. According to a complaint filed Monday in…
A class action lawsuit alleges Anthropic overstated the usage limits of its Claude Max subscription plans and misled customers about savings.
The negotiations could set industry-wide standards for AI access, impacting global AI deployment and regulatory compliance strategies. The post Anthropic technical staff meets Trump officials over access cuts to latest AI models appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrive for a news conference with bipartisan senators on passage of the Online Privacy Protection Act at the Capitol on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images. For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them. But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an ent … Read the full story at The Verge.
