The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most-capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon.com AMZN -1.23%decrease; down pointing triangle Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.
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 cyberattacks and was supposed to be off-limits, Jassy told the officials, according to people familiar with the matter. Tech industry executives have been in regular touch with the administration about the power of cutting-edge AI tools.
The funniest part is that those purported capabilities are a complete nothingburger. They just hyped them up to seem more awesome, so they ended up scaring the geniuses at the current us govt to shut them down. Amazing self - own. But I guess it makes for good pr
According to users it was a pretty decent model. Not the AGI promised for the billionth time, but it was able to slop out most tasks to at least get them to work.