The Fable 5 Crisis Continues
6/15/202626 min
The fight over Anthropic’s Fable 5 is still unresolved, with new reporting pointing to Amazon’s role in triggering the shutdown, sharp disputes over whether the jailbreak was a real national security threat, and growing signs that the path out may be more political than technical. As parties try to resolve the issue in D.C. NLW covers the latest.
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, as the work week starts without resolution, the Fable 5 crisis continues. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Section, Assembly, and Outsystems. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe at Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. [beeping] Today, we are picking up where we left off in the chaotic saga of Anthropic versus the White House around Fable 5. For those just getting up to speed, on Friday night, the United States issued an export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign nationals. Given the breadth of that order, the only choice that Anthropic had in their estimation was to take the model down entirely. Now, the first phase, in the absence of better information, was stunned reactions and everyone casting about for who to blame. And while there might have been some partisans for either the Anthropic side or the U.S. government side, candidly, no one was looking all that great. I did an emergency episode on Saturday morning, and subsequent to that, we started to get a little bit more information, both in the form of narrative construction as well as in the form of reporting. The first important post came from former AI czar David Sacks, who wrote, "I've had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true. As we know,