Keep pulling the thread on Andrej Karpathy.
According to Axios, the US government asked Anthropic to pause the release of its new models, but the company was unsuccessful in this request, or as the source put it, "told the government to pound sand."
A significant number of Anthropic's technical staff, including Andrej Karpathy, are not US citizens and are now prohibited from interacting with the Fable-5 and Mythos-5 models.
Chris McGuire of the Council on Foreign Relations asserts that the Department of Commerce's export control strategy is "incoherent and sabotaging."
Chris McGuire of the Council on Foreign Relations claims the US is sending powerful AI chips to China and not enforcing controls that would prevent their smuggling.
The US government issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Anthropic's Fable-5 and Mythos-5 models for any foreign national.
As a result of a US government directive, Anthropic disabled access to its Fable-5 and Mythos-5 models for all customers.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei announcing export restrictions on the Fable-5 and Mythos-5 models.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the jailbreak research that prompted the US government's action against Anthropic was conducted by researchers at Amazon.
Aaron Levy believes the US government's action against Anthropic is a "big turning point for AI regulation" that sets a precedent for future controls.
Daniel Jeffries predicts that continued fear-based regulation will guarantee that the future of AI is developed outside of the United States.
Brian Zhao believes OpenAI and Google DeepMind now have a disincentive to release Mythos-caliber models until the regulatory situation with Anthropic is resolved.
Brian Zhao predicts that other countries will now operate under the assumption that the US can and will unilaterally revoke access to frontier AI models.