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US pulls the 'kill-switch' on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI models, sending global allies scrambling
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World leaders have raised concerns over the U.S. administration's recent placement of export controls on Anthropic's frontier AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, over national security concerns, Euronews reports.
Key facts
- World leaders have raised concerns over the U.S. administration's recent placement of export controls on Anthropic's frontier AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, over national security concerns
- But in early June, it widened access to Mythos to 150 global organizations, and then a few days after that, dropped Fable 5, a Mythos-grade AI model, but with additional safeguards to protect
- ”These restrictions are a clear example of the current American ‘nobody but them’ mentality," said Dutch Renew Europe MEP Bart Groothuis
- Anthropic suggested similarly capable models would be out in the wild within 18 months, so everyone needed to prepare
Summary
Many of them didn't even point at America directly, merely saying that if governments around the world can block access to the latest AI technologies arbitrarily, then it was within their national security interests to find alternative solutions. Although the heads of U.S. technology firms like Nvidia and Adobe have been in talks with the Trump administration in the hopes that it will reinstate access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing that the bans hamper cybersecurity defensive efforts, the damage already appears done. Anthropic debuted its 'game-changing' cybersecurity-focused AI model, Mythos, in April, claiming it was too dangerous to give the world wider access, but it brought in a few select companies and organizations under Project Glasswing to improve their code security.