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The Trump administration was more than happy to talk to her Anthropic Recently, according to people familiar with the matter: They didn’t have to deal with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, because he was replaced in meetings about the reissue. Cloud Fable 5 AI model By his co-founder Tom Brown.
“Tom Brown is not as cranky as Dario, and he can actually get involved,” said one person with direct knowledge of the calls.
The administration has yet to lift the export controls that put Anthropic’s most powerful models out of business on June 12 after the NSA confirmed there were ways to disable the guardrails and access the more powerful capabilities of the company’s restricted Mythos model.
But the administration has made several calls to Anthropic in recent days, encouraged by the fact that Brown and Anthropic’s head of public policy, Sarah Heck, have been leading the outreach. People say Amodei was very difficult to talk to and did not listen to their concerns.
The talks were at the high-level and working group level, and technical staff from both sides participated. Some conversations have been about trying to determine a level of proof on Anthropic’s part that might alleviate management concerns about jailbreaks in Fable 5, the people say.
As an inner ring previously notedPart of the challenge for both sides lies at the conceptual level. Independent cybersecurity experts increasingly see guardrails in AI models as only a temporary solution, as skilled users and future AI models will find ways to bypass the restrictions.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the matter. An Anthropic spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
The timeline for when Anthropic will be able to republish Fable 5 remains uncertain. But what the company needs to do to lift export controls may become clearer in the coming days.
Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers Sent a list of questions On the future path of Anthropic Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who has played a leading role in addressing the risk of jailbreaks in part because the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security administers export controls.
Among the questions in the letter was one related to republication: “What specific criteria does the Department rely on to determine whether to restore public access to the form by reviewing this decision? What is the timeline for this decision?”
The letter, signed by actors Sam Liccardo, Jay Obernault, C. Scott Franklin and Ted Liu, asked for a response by June 26. A Commerce Department spokesman declined to comment on whether the agency would respond by the deadline.
Algae is always greener
At the White House, President Donald Trump angrily posted on Truth Social about negative coverage of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which was surrounded by flooding. Algae blooms and The panels are made of blue sealant Which appeared to be separate from the pool floor after the President’s $16.4 million renovation.
After Trump claimed that several people had been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the renovations, an administration official declined to clarify which activities surrounding the reflecting pool could be considered a crime. On Tuesday, the administration also started erecting fencing around the pool.
National Guardsmen assigned to the reflecting pool have been instructed since last week to detain anyone who even touches the water — let alone any sealant panels — until U.S. Park Police can arrest them on vandalism-related charges, two people familiar with the matter said.
The law cited for what is prohibited is 36 Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, Section 2.1(a)(6), according to an administration official, which prohibits “the possession, destruction, injury, defacement, removal, excavation, or disturbance of a structure, furnishing, or fixtures, or any other cultural or archaeological resources.”
Another law, 36 CFR 7.96, prohibits “bathing, swimming, or wading in any fountain or pool” other than the World War II Memorial’s Rainbow Pool and the fountains of the German-American Friendship Park, adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool.
It’s not clear whether placing your hand in the water violates any of those laws. But Inner Loop doesn’t think it’s worth risking quote crime to find out.
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