US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

**TL;DR:** US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

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As Anthropic execs prepare to visit the White House after effectively being ordered to cease offering the company's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, the European Commission says the incident is another example of why the EU must achieve technological autonomy. Anthropic announced on Friday that the US government issued an export control directive that required the AI upstart to prevent any non-US citizens from accessing its cybersecurity models Mythos 5 and Fable 5. The order meant even some Anthropic staff could not use its models.

And as there’s no way to tell if someone on the internet is a US citizen, the order effectively meant that the AI company had to stop making the models available to everyone to ensure compliance. Anthropic isn't sure why the White House issued the order. "Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking,' Fable 5," the company said.

"To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. "Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was s

Source: The Register

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