Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s conversation with the US government officials that led to ban on Anthropic Fable 5 models: Supposed to be off limits for …

A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report said that Amazon research may be behind the Trump administration’s decision to block foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced AI models – Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Now, the publication reports that the decision was also influenced by conversations between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and senior US government officials. According to WSJ’s latest report, Andy Jassy told officials, including US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, that Amazon researchers were able to get Anthropic’s newly released Fable 5 model to provide information that could potentially help cyberattacks. The information was said to be “supposed to be off limits” under the model’s safety protections