{"id":702468,"date":"2026-06-13T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:25:08","slug":"amazon-ceo-reportedly-raised-anthropic-model-concerns-before-government-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702468\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/12\/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wall Street Journal reports that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578\" target=\"_blank\">Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other government officials<\/a> that Amazon researchers used Anthropic\u2019s Claude Fable 5 to obtain information that could be used in cyberattacks. The government subsequently imposed an export control ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that while it\u2019s \u201cnot uncommon for governments to seek our counsel on potential security risks,\u201d the company does not \u201cshare the details of those discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spokesperson also pointed to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\">an update<\/a> stating that AWS has been affected by the model cut off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/amazons-jassy-raised-concerns-anthropic-model-trump-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">The Information<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/amazon-voiced-concerns-about-anthropic-ai-models-before-us-governments-crackdown-2026-06-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a> similarly reported that Amazon (a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/20\/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spending-in-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major Anthropic investor<\/a>) had communicated concerns about the security of Anthropic\u2019s models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Sacks, Trump\u2019s former AI czar who now co-chairs the President\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, offered his own account of the discussions, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidSacks\/status\/2065853007619588171\">claiming<\/a> that \u201ca highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG [\u2026] came forward with a jailbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sacks added, \u201cThe Admin asked [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei] to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic said in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/fable-mythos-access\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> that the capabilities apparently causing government concern are already available in other publicly accessible models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post has been updated with a statement from an Amazon spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[960,19353,184,28,12289,4666],"class_list":["post-702468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-andy-jassy","tag-anthropic","tag-business","tag-david-sacks","tag-scott-bessent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}