The White House Was Reportedly Ready to Go After Claude Mythos Long Before Fable 5 Was Released

On June 2, about a week before Anthropic released its Claude Fable 5 model, it announced it had added 150 new organizations to Project Glasswing, the program that allowed (theoretically) trustworthy companies, governments, and other entities to try out the cybersecurity capabilities of Anthropic’s (theoretically) too-dangerous-to-release AI model, Claude Mythos Preview. This, according to a new report from the Washington Post, was part of the move that placed Anthropic on a collision course with the dramatic export control directive from the White House that essentially got Fable 5, Anthropic’s flagship consumer model, taken offline on Friday. Here, however, it’s worth pausing on a disclosure in the Washington Post’s anonymously sourced story: “Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.” This is worth keeping in mind in light of the fact that, according to a (once again anonymously sourced) Wall Street Journal story from Saturday, the triggering event for the White House’s export control directive was a tip from current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, saying Amazon researchers had demonstrated that they could jailbreak Fable and make it perform cybersecurity tasks that i