Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off global access to two models on Friday.

The Wall Street Journal reports this Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other government officials that Amazon researchers used Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 to obtain information that could be used in cyber attacks. The government subsequently imposed an export control ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that while it is “not unusual for governments to ask us for guidance on potential safety risks,” the company “does not share the details of those discussions.”

The spokesperson also pointed this out an update stating that AWS has been affected by the cut model.

The information And Reuters similarly reported that Amazon (a major Anthropic investor) had raised concerns about the safety of Anthropic’s models.

David Sacks, Trump’s former AI czar who now co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, gave his own account of the discussions: to claim which is “a highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG […] came forward with a jailbreak.”

Sacks added, “The manager asked [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei] to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.”

Anthropic said in a blog post that the capabilities that apparently concern the government are already available in other publicly accessible models.

This post has been updated with a statement from an Amazon spokesperson.