Fable is coming back: Federal government lifts export controls on Anthropic AI model

Anthropic and the U.S. government already had a strained relationship after Anthropic refused to remove its contractual safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons for the U.S. Department of War.

In return, the Department of War designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively banning all contractors and suppliers to the agency from using its services. A number of legal challenges upheld at least part of this designation at the Department of War, but allowed other agencies to continue using Anthropic’s services

While the two situations are not directly linked, it’s hard not to read the Fable controls as an extension of this existing animosity between Anthropic and the Trump administration (and in part, this seems personal as well).

Since imposing export controls on Fable, however, the relationship between Anthropic and the U.S. government has slowly thawed, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his staff have met with a rotating group of Anthropic representatives.

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