Amazon pushed White House to shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5

According to WSJ, Axios and The Information, Amazon researchers bypassed Fable 5's guardrails and delivered a report to the White House. After a Commerce Department export order and a 90-minute ultimatum, Anthropic disabled both models for all users worldwide.

• Fable 5 and Mythos 5 launched June 9 and went dark June 12
• Amazon is Anthropic's largest investor with roughly $8 billion invested
• The export order barred access for foreign nationals, including Anthropic staff
• Anthropic denies that its core safety systems were actually broken