Anthropic faced an export control directive forcing it to cut access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, prompting the company to disable the models for everyone. White House officials tried reaching CEO Dario Amodei amid the fast-moving situation, and conflicting accounts emerged about his whereabouts and response time.
@vikhyatk dario amodei at friday lunch while the fate of the lightcone hangs in the balance:
anthropic claims it’s “absolutely false” their ceo was unreachable. in the same breath they admit he was unreachable for 75 minutes
The company insists Amodei joined calls within 75 minutes of contact and offered other leaders as stand-ins. Exactly where he was during the first outreach remains disputed, leaving observers to wonder how such gaps affect coordination on national-security directives.
Everyone lost access to the newest models while Anthropic sorted compliance, with foreign nationals still barred. The episode highlights how quickly government interventions can ripple through paying customers and internal teams alike.
Many users condemned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for taking 75 minutes to respond to White House AI calls while at a wellness retreat, viewing the delay as unacceptable neglect of duty.
@SophiaCai99 “It wasn’t a wellness retreat, it was a centering center.”
@SophiaCai99 regardless of the actual timing, admitting to not getting back to the white house for an hour and 15 mins is still insane to me.
@SophiaCai99 “Within an hour and 15 minutes” lol
Remember when he wanted the Gov’t to call him if we were getting nuked? 😂😂😂
@SophiaCai99 If he was on the phone within an hour, why did the White House claim they spent hours begging him to cooperate?
@SophiaCai99 >within an hour and 15 minutes LOL. Every small business owner i know carries a work cell phone and can be reached by normal customers 12+ hours a day. This guy takes more than an hour to get back to the White House about the alien intelligence he introduced into the world.
You couldn’t include Anthropic’s rejection of this statement in your post?
Everyone is going to read your main post and not read your clarification.
The admin can say anything about anyone and you’ll just repost it for them as fact with an asterisk that no one is going to read or include in their discussions.
The average American worker: "Hi, I have urgent surgery today, I'll be unavailable for 39 minutes and 29 seconds. You can call with my manager." Dario, CEO of a $1 trillion company, two days after releasing the most dangerous AI model in history, when the White House officials call: "Sorry, not available, I'm on a wellness retreat." 🤯
@SophiaCai99 If you’re not available in an hour and 15 minutes, you’re not available.
When the @WhiteHouse calls, you pick up - doesn’t matter if it’s @BillClinton, @BarackObama or @realDonaldTrump
@airkatakana second-generation poetry
@airkatakana Is this a joke? Can't tell if I'm being dense or what. The wellness retreat thing is almost certainly bs / irrelevant
@SophiaCai99 Deja vu
@airkatakana pretty sure the “wellness retreat” thing was adversarially crafted for mockery potential.
that aside: it’s totally acceptable for biological machines to require downtime in their marathon to build metal machines that don’t (or that need less).
@Crawbaddy @SophiaCai99 He's the CEO of a major company, he will have other commitments here and there.
@anomsiiwa @SophiaCai99 You have met this administration right?
@airkatakana He was not! The fucking Trump WH uses fake journalists like the Politico bitch to spread bullshit! Dario was at the Anthropic HQ all day!
@tablefourthree @SophiaCai99 this is government misinformation laundering
@airkatakana the us government doesn’t appreciate being called a metamour
@anomsiiwa @SophiaCai99 There's no incongruity there. It takes an hour to get in touch, then they spend hours arguing.
@airkatakana @grok how can one mitigate slop like this from showing on my timeline? it provides no data, no insight. nothing.
@trashbaby40k @airkatakana yeah it's a meme format/parody of another tweet