For almost two weeksSenior members of the Anthropic team have been in talks with the Trump Administration, trying to get a highly restrictive export control directive lifted. According to a new Wired reportThese talks were not going well, and that was at least partly because CEO Dario Amodei was involved, but it is reported that since Amodei left the talks, things are improving.
According to Wired, the White House is now talking to Tom Brown, another co-founder of Anthropic (that’s his full job title). according to his LinkedIn). An anonymous person involved in the calls reportedly told Wired: “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can really participate.” Amodei was reportedly difficult to deal with and, Wired’s sources claim, he was not being a good listener.
Previous reports has stated that Amodei has a tendency to “rant” and that he “cannot control his emotions.” If you’ve ever seen videos of Amodei, including some done under friendly circumstances, you’ll know that his natural facial expression is a little giddy, that he has a trumpet-like voice, that he waves his arms when he speaks, and that he will. sometimes not only breaking eye contact but tilting your entire head towards the floor while speaking.
Judging by what’s online, Brown he has an overall edgy nerd speaking style, but a much warmer and traditionally nicer version. He seems to smile easily and his voice is much softer and firmer than Amodei’s.
Wired says Brown is working on the talks alongside Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s director of public policy. His conversational style, once again, what’s online—He appears enthusiastic and precise, but also quite disciplined and cautious, attributes that a position as head of public policy would probably require.
Anthropic needs the White House to approve its Claude Fable 5 AI model, the most advanced frontier model Anthropic makes available to consumers, for general use once again. Anthropic calls Fable 5 a “Mythos-class” model, meaning it is made with the same core technology as the Claude Mythos Preview. which Anthropic deemed too dangerous to be accessed by the public.
Apparently, Fable 5 arrived stripped of capabilities that made it a potential cybersecurity threat, but according to multiple sourcesAmazon researchers notified the White House shortly after its publication that jailbreaks could supposedly remove these safeguards easily. Before learning about the jailbreak issue, the White House was reportedly It was already concerned that potential bad actors affiliated with Chinese interests had accessed the model, so it issued the export control order about three days after the release of Fable 5. It required Anthropic to prevent non-US citizens from using Fable 5 (along with another, much more exclusive model, Mythos 5).
anthropic announced that it had withdrawn Fable 5 offline on June 12. Talks between Anthropic and the White House began shortly thereafter.
