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The battle between the Trump administration and Anthropic AI has been raging for months, and its mercurial nature has made it one of the harder spats of this term to keep track of, even for those of us in the tech news world. But after last Friday\u2019s surprise de facto ban of the company\u2019s latest model releases, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, many are wondering if the government\u2019s meddling goes beyond the realm of hypervigilance into more malevolent territory. In fact, according to recent reporting in The New York Times<\/em>, some Anthropic employees are outright convinced that this administration is actively trying to harm their business.<\/p>\n

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The Dario Amodei-led company was initially brought into Trump\u2019s orbit late last year with a DoD contract offer as part of the Department of War\u2019s rollout of an \u201cAI-first\u201d military strategy. The apparent beginning of things going off the rails came when Anthropic asked for a modicum of regulation and some guarantees about how its tech would be implemented\u2014mass domestic surveillance and autonomous killings were off the table. The negotiating hurdles presented by these crumbs of ethics were clearly a break from the more laissez-faire<\/em> deals made by their industry peers and rankled Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n

Soon after, in an unprecedented and seemingly punitive measure, the Pentagon deemed Anthropic a \u201csupply-chain risk.\u201d This designation barred any \u201ccontractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military\u201d from doing business with Anthropic, according to Hegseth\u2019s subsequent post on X. Despite this alleged security risk, Hegseth also made clear that Anthropic would still need to spend the remaining months of its contract providing service to the Pentagon until a \u201cbetter and more patriotic\u201d replacement was found.<\/p>\n

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While both teams\u2019 lawyers duked out the legality of the blacklisting in court, Anthropic continued developing its models and, gradually, its relationship with the administration became less adversarial. Or so it seemed until the June release of Fable 5, Anthropic\u2019s publicly available version of the Mythos 5 model that powers Palantir\u2019s Pentagon efforts, albeit with cybersecurity guardrails. But mere days after that launch, the company was forced to disable both its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after yet another edict from the White House.<\/p>\n

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Citing vague concerns about jailbroken versions of the models getting into the hands of \u201cforeign nationals\u201d resulting in a threat to national security, the federal government issued what is called an \u201cexport control directive\u201d to Anthropic at 5:21 PM (ET) on Friday, demanding they prevent any foreign access to the models in question. But with paying customers around the globe and so many Anthropic employees themselves foreign nationals, the company\u2019s only way to ensure full compliance was to acquiesce to the demands and remove everyone\u2019s access, rather than sift through its users one by one.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic says that they were just as shocked by their users about the government directive and maintain that the ban was prompted by overstatements of narrow, known vulnerabilities\u2014none that come close to warranting such an intervention.<\/p>\n

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Before any re-releases occur, the administration wants to see model versions where guardrails are patently unable to be circumvented. According to reporting in WIRED<\/em>, a number of experts doubt this hypothetical impregnable model is even possible and believe all cybersecurity guardrails are mere stopgaps waiting to be improved upon once their inherent weaknesses are inevitably exposed.<\/p>\n

But while the opposing forces continue to meet for negotiations that the President says are \u201cgoing fine,\u201d an ugly precedent is being set. Administrations have always picked horses, but the bullying of Anthropic because they dared to ask for a fraction of the regulation the AI industry desperately needs is another thing entirely. If defending against foreign threats is the real goal here, why have the administration\u2019s recent measures against Anthropic compelled employees from their rival, Open AI, to come to do their defense? More importantly, why do these decisions supposedly made for the benefit of the nation always seem to leave America in a more isolated, precarious state than before?<\/p>\n

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