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Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
- mustardo 3mo agoMighty fine AI you have there, be a shame if something were to happen to it...
- eurekin 3mo agoAlso, supposedly biggest MMA event Rogan doesn't want to be on. Something is up
- throw1234567891 3mo agoRogan is a tool.
- kakacik 3mo agoInteresting statement with various meanings :) I just can't get his popularity, he isn't smart, he isn't a great speaker, his opinions on actually important stuff is often... just sad to hear, hyping up a 'bro effect and thats about it. Its like listening to that old buddy from primary school who struggled to get through high school, and now as an adult gathered some interesting opinions about the world, politics and humans that you really are not interested in. Tons of better folks online, if somebody really has nothing better going in their short lives to listen to blahs for 3 hours, repeatedly. I guess there are worse ways to spend time though
- throw1234567891 3mo agoHe helped Trump win by promoting the guy right before the election, together with Theo Von. For clicks, and undeniably, money. Both are tools. One of them with a kick of a mule, still a tool.
- conorcleary 3mo ago'cause he's sponsored by perplexity
- gregoriol 3mo agoThey should fly staff to EU instead
- root-parent 3mo agoNo need, the EU will just order more AI light bulbs, when everything is sorted: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dUPJuSZF1Is https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dUPJuSZF1Is
- sofixa 3mo agoIt's not "AI light bulbs", the point is to use smart meters for load shedding and load rearranging. Why wouldn't you want for people and companies to be able to use cheaper electricity in off-peak hours?
- chasil 3mo agoAs I understand it, ITAR regulations for export controls have just been applied to any form of Mythos. These are overseen by U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, and forbid foreign nationals from access to any form of Mythos, either within or outside the U.S. Only U.S. citizens and immigrants that are holders of a "green card" may now access Mythos. It appears that Anthropic does not have internal controls to implement these restrictions in any form, so the only option was to shut Mythos down. Penalties for ITAR violation can reach ten years in prison and a million dollars per violation. (I can post a link to those details if there is any interest.) As long as Anthropic is a U.S. company, there is no escaping this. https://fortune.com/2026/06/14/how-a-warning-from-amazon-led-the-white-house-to-shut-down-anthropics-mythos-model/ https://fortune.com/2026/06/14/how-a-warning-from-amazon-led...
- bel8 3mo agoSo Anthropic can't even move to Europe now since that would be considered a crime against national security? Like trying to move a missile industry from USA to EU.
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- comrade1234 3mo agoAfter seeing headlines about the ufc fight on the White House lawn and seeing headlines about how Japanese World Cup fans clean up trash after the match I had an image of programmers doing lawn care at the White House...
- 4ggr0 3mo agoi 100% thought this article was going to be about cleaning up the idiocracy festival from the past weekend. didn't even question the fact that people from anthropic would be there to help, seemed like a fitting asskiss.
- flohofwoe 3mo agoThat was seriously what I thought the headline is about. Anthropic flying in their employees to clean up the trash after Trumps birthday party for free to demonstrate their obedience with a good show of licking the Dear Leader's boots. Extremely silly of course, but entirely in line with all the other news currently coming out of the US ;)
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- Surac 3mo agoI hope they are good at cage fighting. Thats what Trump is all about
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- ed_mercer 3mo agohttps://archive.md/KJK8v https://archive.md/KJK8v
- OkWing99 3mo agoWouldn't it be funny if US Gov takes a 10% stake in Anthropic.
- DaSHacka 3mo agoDonald Trump, if you can hear me...
- letmetweakit 3mo agoNothing a few million dollars here and there can't fix ...
- pera 3mo agoKissing the ring also helps - I won't be surprised if Anthropic's next model goes full MAGA
- khalic 3mo agoI don’t know, for all the bad people say about Amodei, everybody seem convinced he’d rather burn his company than let something like that happen
- brookst 3mo agoCheaper and less harmful to long-term and international prospects to just make a gold-plated “AI Peace Prize” award and gift it in some ceremony. Couple of hundred thousand dollars, works great. Ask Tim Apple.
- dang 3mo agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments.
- santiagobasulto 3mo ago> Senior technical Anthropic staff doesn't seem to be a political meeting, but rather a technical one. Maybe they'll review the jailbreaks and demonstrate that can be replicated in any model out there?
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- weird-eye-issue 3mo agoHow could it not be both?
- vb-8448 3mo agoI hope no, otherwise also Claude and GPT will be banned XD
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- petesergeant 3mo ago> Amodei has always been and always will be a creep Like at what point do the weird and random Amodei smears start to seem like an orchestrated attempt?
- throwaway132448 3mo agoThey’re not weird or random when you’ve lived around many people like him before. Apparently not enough of us have unfortunately, so you keep elevating them when you should know better. So here I am trying to give you a heads up.
- piva00 3mo agoUnfortunately it's not widely distributed information, if you care so much about shedding a light on Amodei's shadiness it would help a lot folks like me to understand what you are talking about. I know of Sam Altman's shenanigans from way before OpenAI (I used to be on reddit a lot more when `sama` appeared over there) but I have no idea about Amodei. Help us out because otherwise it really does read as yet another conspiracy theory on the internet.
- throwaway132448 3mo agoDespite already being familiar with such a person (in the form of Altman), for some reason you are trying to find minor reasons that they are different people, and it’s distracting you from the major reasons that they are actually the same people. I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have. It’s about observation not conspiracy.
- piva00 3mo agoOk, I thought there was more to it. I'm not trying anything, I want more information if it's available, otherwise it's all conjecture... Even though I dislike anyone at that level of power, the way you phrased things implied there was more information. You are just expressing an opinion and that's ok, just don't make it sound like there's more to it than that.
- MrBuddyCasino 3mo agoAnthropic: "Our new models are so mighty and dangerous, we'll limit access." US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then" This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal. (btw heres what most likely happened, they refused to fix a jailbreak: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171 https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171)
- DaSHacka 3mo agoYep, hard to feel bad when the whole reason they're in this mess is because they tried to introduce FYD about their own product as an argument why open models need to be banned.
- khalic 3mo agoWhat a dumb take, life isn’t a meme This is retaliation by the us gov for not unlocking Claude to use on their weapon. Not good for anybody
- anuramat 3mo ago> what most likely happened sounds super biased UPD just look up "anthropic david sacks" > epic are you unironically happy about what is happening right now?
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- bushido 3mo agoAnecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time. I was expecting/hoping it'd be years away. However given the events in the last few days it greatly increases my concern with building any product which can depend on an on an API which could go away for a number of my customers. I've been experimenting with other open weight models hosted in favorable sovereign countries for a few months, but this accelerates something which was an experiment to now being a must-have. I don't think it is going to be easy for any of the parties to repair this easily.
- general1465 3mo agoI see it exactly the same, self hosted LLM will be the future. They may not be SOTA, but it is better to have a Trabant in your garage than being denied use of shared Ferrari, because somebody outside of your control had hissy fit.
- fragmede 3mo agoI like a good car analogy, but it doesn't hold up in this case. What am I going to do with a Ferrari that's durable and makes me money, the same way that Mythos/Fable can output me better code than Opus 4.x? I mean I guess I could take a picture of me in a Ferrari, and then when I show off that picture but can't produce the Ferrari, I look dumb, but Mythos generated code/artifacts are still downloadable and runnable, if you got far enough before the cut off. Judging from the quality/availability of the few days we had it, it's a shared resource anyway. The usage limits were too low to give everything to Fable to do.
- tmaly 3mo agoBack when encryption and PGP was the hot topic, similar things happened with sovereigns.
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- ryandvm 3mo agoNone of this would have happened if Anthropic had just bought a few million dollars worth of Trumpcoin :melting_face: