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Politico Deep-Dive: White House Waged 19-Day Standoff With Anthropic Over Fable Jailbreak

Summary

Politico's magazine desk publishes a detailed insider recap of the 19-day June standoff in which White House officials bluntly ordered Dario Amodei to take Fable down after Amazon flagged a jailbreak. New reporting details the calls between Amodei and senior administration officials, Anthropic's argument that the security bypass was narrow, and the eventual Commerce Department export-control order that pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline until Anthropic shipped a >99% blocking safety classifier.

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