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According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access<\/a> to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series of prompts, it was able to get Fable 5<\/a> to serve up information that could be used in cyberattacks. Amazon has yet to respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Shortly after Jassy shared the company\u2019s findings with the government, it made the call to block its use by foreign nationals. Complicating this issue is that many of Anthropic\u2019s researchers are foreign-born, meaning they were barred from accessing their own product.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a statement<\/a>, Anthropic disputed the government\u2019s characterization of the issue as a \u201cjailbreak.\u201d It argued that many of the same vulnerabilities could be discovered using other publicly available models, including GPT 5.5. Some security researchers appear to back the company\u2019s interpretation. Katie Moussouris, the founder and CEO of LutaSecurity posted on BlueSky<\/a> that \u201cI\u2019ve seen the paper. It\u2019s not a jailbreak.\u201d Former Commerce Department official Kate Koren<\/a> speculated to the WSJ<\/em> that the White House\u2019s dislike of Anthropic may have influenced the decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Anthropic and the Trump administration have been at odds<\/a> for some time<\/a> over the company\u2019s refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to power lethal autonomous weapons. In February, Trump instructed federal agencies to stop using<\/a> Anthropic\u2019s AI. And just hours later, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth designated the company a supply chain risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The government and the company seemed to have made<\/a> amends<\/a>, and the two had worked together to expand access<\/a> to Mythos. However, now the two seem destined to clash again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n