Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
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Amazon security research claiming it could jailbreak Anthropic's Fable 5 model to extract cyberattack information reportedly prompted the White House to issue an export control directive blocking foreign nationals from accessing the model. Anthropic disputes the characterization, arguing similar vulnerabilities exist in other public models like GPT 5.5, and some security researchers agree it was not a true jailbreak. The ban also bars many of Anthropic's own foreign-born researchers from using the model, escalating tensions between the company and the Trump administration over prior disagreements on mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons.