The Trump administration’s decision to cut off foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence models was reportedly prompted by calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.

According to A report from The Wall Street Journal Jassy contacted senior government officials on Thursday after Amazon researchers discovered a way to trick Anthropic’s Fable 5 model into returning information that could be used in cyberattacks.

Call with warnings from at least five other companies, led to a frantic scramble within the White House to assess the threat and contact Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who apparently dismissed the administration’s concerns and requests to voluntarily phase out the model.

“In response, the Administrator issued export controls. The Administrator did so reluctantly.” he said On Saturday, David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. “We were very surprised that Anthropic was uncooperative with a legitimate security request (i.e. fixing the jailbreak).”

Source: David Sacks

The episode sheds lithe on what led up to this The US directive that forced Anthropic to withdraw its up-to-date model from the public on Friday evening. Anthropic Claude is estimated to have approximately 18,900 monthly busy users.

In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic said it believed the U.S. directive was the result of a misunderstanding about the threat posed by “uncommon prison breaks,” according to an anonymous report.

Amazon did not confirm whether it has spoken to government officials about the Anthropic models.

“As a leading cloud services provider that serves a large number of private and public sector clients, it is not uncommon for governments to seek our advice on potential security risks,” the spokesperson said. “When they happen, we do not share the details of those discussions.”

Anthropic says it is working to restore access to its users.

Related: Anthropic suspends access to Fable 5, Mythos 5, citing a US directive

“The administrator now hopes that Anthropic will resolve the security issue,” Sacks said, which means export controls will be lifted and Fable will return to mainstream release.

“The administrator wants this all to happen as quickly as possible.”

The number of AI tokens increases after dealing with Antropia

The episode also demonstrated the U.S. government’s ability to quickly disable access to U.S. AI models on request, which led to a surge in decentralized AI tokens on Friday and Saturday.

Bittensor’s native token, a decentralized AI protocol which allows people to build artificial intelligence models and monetize them, called by some the “Bitcoin of artificial intelligence”, increased 23.9% in the last 24 hours.

Venice Token (VVV), the native utility and privacy coin powering Venice AI, the decentralized, uncensored AI platform founded by Erik Voorhees, rose 16%.

Near Protocol, a blockchain project building infrastructure to support, among others, decentralized economy of AI agents, rose 6.2%.

Source: Erik Voorhees

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