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By Karen Kwok

NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Releasing a model based on a hacking super-weapon raised alarm in Washington, which responded with fatal export controls. Nervy allies have new reason to build non-US rivals and fret over chokepoint tech. The $965 bln lab’s IPO hopes risk falling into a regulatory Pandora’s box.

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Anthropic said on June 12 that the Trump administration had ordered the company to block any foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States, from using its latest and most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. In response, Anthropic said it would disable access to the models globally.

In the blog post, Anthropic said the U.S. government told the company it believes there is a method of bypassing, or "jailbreaking," a safeguard ​against using the model to find cybersecurity holes. The bypass found only "minor" security flaws that other publicly available models can also find, Anthropic said.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Anthropic investor Amazon.com, was ​among those who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week, Reuters reported on June 13, citing a person familiar with the matter.

"As a leading cloud provider that serves a large number of private and public sector customers, it’s not uncommon for governments to seek ​our counsel on potential security risks," an Amazon spokesperson said. "When they occur, we don’t share the details of these discussions."