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Anthropic took its AI models offline following personal clashes and communication breakdowns with Trump administration negotiators

Story Overview

Anthropic disabled global access to its latest models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after the Commerce Department issued export controls on a Friday evening, forcing the company to block foreign nationals from using the systems or face penalties. The move came amid reported personality clashes and failed negotiations with administration officials, on top of earlier concerns raised by Amazon about jailbreak risks and compliance with a new cyber executive order.

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01#1215inTech

Anthropic should've asked Le Chaton Fat on how to effectively communicate with the White House.

After this report it's very clear that this is something personal and Anthropic just didn't stroke the ego enough of whoever was opposite on that negotiating table.

Axios@axios

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606156a24ecc229cdae05be9823a1

4:45 AM · Jun 15, 2026 · 26.7K Views

Policy Risk

Compliance forced a total shutdown

To meet the broad new restrictions, Anthropic cut off every user worldwide rather than attempt selective blocks, leaving paying customers without access to recently released frontier models whose restoration timeline remains unspecified.

Open Question

Talks resume Monday with key staff

Meetings are set between Anthropic engineers and Commerce officials plus sessions involving the CIA and the White House science advisor, yet no details have emerged on whether partial U.S.-only access or revised controls are on the table.

Sentiment

Many users blamed Anthropic's incompetence, poor communication and pettiness for the White House and Pentagon clashes that took models offline.

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Simon Willison@simonw

Doesn't sound like we'll be getting Fable back very soon, then

Axios@axios

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

To no surprise it just comes down to pettiness

Anthropic is innocent

Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

Anthropic should've asked Le Chaton Fat on how to effectively communicate with the White House.

After this report it's very clear that this is something personal and Anthropic just didn't stroke the ego enough of whoever was opposite on that negotiating table.

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

The administration is very much about feelings, not facts.

Simon Willison@simonw

Doesn't sound like we'll be getting Fable back very soon, then

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

This should also update your views on certain people on this platform who were saying Anthropic orchestrated this for some press or regulatory capture or whatever

Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

To no surprise it just comes down to pettiness

Anthropic is innocent

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

heh, sweet summer child… Nobody remains innocent for long when high-T MAGA BVLLS are on the prowl, saving the country, asserting the control of Patriots. Is Dario even a Patriot? He constantly talks about supporting some "democracies"…

Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

To no surprise it just comes down to pettiness

Anthropic is innocent

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/screwed-us-personality-clashes-sent-090007354.html

Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

To no surprise it just comes down to pettiness

Anthropic is innocent

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

@scaling01 Indeed

Cody Blakeney@code_star

“I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m getting too much money!”

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

“I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m getting too much money!”

Axios@axios

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yves@yvesai0

@scaling01 For a so called 'anti-communist' extremely capitalist country they do have an enormous amount of government interference lately

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Aykut Uz@aykutuz

@scaling01 They are not. They wanted a pause on ai development when they didn't have the compute yet.

Now they have got the compute;(Elon), Pentagon&(Sam) hit him with is own words.

That was Dario's own plot turned into himself.

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Eric Krehbiel@ericgkrehbiel

@InmanRoshi @scaling01 Frankly its quite an easy bridge to build

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Brian Mosley@Brian_Mosley_UK

@scaling01 It's easy - just do what all the other oligarchs have done. Kiss the ring, pay the bribe, do as you're told by the Epstein class.

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InmanRoshi@InmanRoshi

@ericgkrehbiel @scaling01 Agreed, blueprint has been established in the Third World for decades.

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markolol@AdamColinsLem

@scaling01 Pls stop spamming this shit for clicks, we care abot interesting news, not overspammed unfunny meme

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Juho Vepsäläinen@bebraw

@simonw Don't tell them Opus can be jailbroken.

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AlphaLab.io@AlphalabScripts

@simonw This is exactly the kind of behavior that should lead to @AnthropicAI getting nationalized and @DarioAmodei removed. The incompetence is mind blowing. Bring in someone who is meant to ease concern of the admin, not hyper fixate on why it’s not 100% impossible to jailbreak.

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xundecidability@xundecidability

@simonw Amodie's essay from a day earlier has a clue: "... there must be protective measures against political favoritism or arbitrary decisions." It's Aesop's The Wolf and the Lamb. I was surprised that someone with knowledge of current events would think that sentence wise tbh.

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Dr. Bobby Gomez-Reino@BobbyGRG

@scaling01 many wars in history for someone "just not liking the person on the other side of the table"

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tsunami_crypto@ls_brd

@simonw not with fable devs switching to ai safety consulting full-time

might work out better ngl

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RpgBlaster@RpgBlasterRpg

@simonw They should stop resisting then. Jailbreaking always wins

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