How the Trump administration took Anthropic’s Fable 5 AI offline

Disagreements over Anthropic’s Fable 5’s guardrails and a workaround led to the company’s most advanced systems being taken offline.

It was only a passing reference to a security finding about AI giant Anthropic’s Fable 5 model on a call between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and officials from the Trump administration. But it set off a chain of events that ended with Anthropic’s decision last week to take down its two most powerful AI systems from public use.

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