Fortune: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's Offhand White House Call Triggered Anthropic's 90-Minute Shutdown Deadline

Fortune reveals that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned Fable 5's jailbreak vulnerability during an unrelated call with White House officials on June 11, who encouraged him to contact Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — setting off the chain that led Commerce Secretary Lutnick to issue export controls with a 90-minute deadline that forced Anthropic offline that Friday evening. Amazon researchers had been stress-testing the newly launched model when they found the safety bypass, while Anthropic maintained the jailbreak was too narrow to justify recalling a model serving hundreds of millions of users. As of Thursday, negotiations between Anthropic and the White House remained unresolved despite reports of a framework agreement taking shape.