Just as last weekwas ending,the US governmentforced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.
Cybersecurity researchers havesince signed an open lettercallingthe move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models.Sois this a genuine security concern, or just the latest chapter in a messy relationship between Anthropic and the Trump administration?
On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast, hosts Anthony Ha, Sean O’Kane, and Rebecca Bellan unpack what the ban means for developers building onAnthropic’splatform and for anyone watching the IPO, why itmight accidentally be good for the company, and more of the week’s headlines.
Listen to the full episode to hear more about:
- Why theUK’s social media banfor users under 16 might be the lesser of two evils
- What theSpaceX-Cursor acquisitiontells us aboutxAI’sstrategy (and its gaps)
- Jeff Bezos’s $12B bet on physical AIwith Prometheus, the startup trying to build an “artificial engineer”
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Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News where he helped break stories about some of the most notorious EV SPAC flops. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
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