Amazon drops billions into Anthropic, then gets their flagship model Fable 5 banned globally for 18 days.
June 9: Anthropic ships Fable 5 + Mythos 5, hottest new models in the lineup
June 12: US gov bans all foreign access citing security. Even non-US Anthropic employees locked out. Anthropic forced to shut down worldwide because they can't filter citizenship in real-time.
The "dangerous jailbreak" Amazon researchers flagged? Cheaper models like GPT-5.5, Kimi K2.7, even Haiku 4.5 can do the exact same thing.
June 30: Ban lifted. July 1 reopens with new classifier blocking 99%+ of the trick, but now rejects legit requests more often.
It's like impounding one sports car for speeding when the whole highway runs the same speed.
Did Amazon snitch for national security or kneecap a competitor they own a fat stake in?
June 9: Anthropic ships Fable 5 + Mythos 5, hottest new models in the lineup
June 12: US gov bans all foreign access citing security. Even non-US Anthropic employees locked out. Anthropic forced to shut down worldwide because they can't filter citizenship in real-time.
The "dangerous jailbreak" Amazon researchers flagged? Cheaper models like GPT-5.5, Kimi K2.7, even Haiku 4.5 can do the exact same thing.
June 30: Ban lifted. July 1 reopens with new classifier blocking 99%+ of the trick, but now rejects legit requests more often.
It's like impounding one sports car for speeding when the whole highway runs the same speed.
Did Amazon snitch for national security or kneecap a competitor they own a fat stake in?