Extremely silly of course, but entirely in line with all the other news currently coming out of the US ;)
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.
Something is up
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?
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...
It was my understanding that not even green card holders may access Mythos. Normally when restrictions like this are put in place, you need a exemption as a green card holder. A geen card is just a permit to live and work in the US. Its not the same as citizenship.
> Security Clearance: Green Card holders are generally prohibited from jobs that require high-level security clearances or sensitive government/military roles reserved exclusively for U.S. citizens.
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)
This is retaliation by the us gov for not unlocking Claude to use on their weapon. Not good for anybody
How unsurprising.
Amodei has always been and always will be a creep. Unfortunately too many people here don’t want to hear it about their favourite billionaire, just like they didn’t want to hear it about all the other sociopaths that tech has minted in the last 20 years.
Like at what point do the weird and random Amodei smears start to seem like an orchestrated attempt?
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.
Like trying to move a missile industry from USA to EU.
How could restriction not be appropriate.
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
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.
I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have. It’s about observation not conspiracy.
It could imply many things, in terms of how that actually manifests in their behaviour. But I don’t care about that at all.
I only wish us plebs would stop inflicting them on ourselves.
Europe has extradition treaties, so the U.S. can force anyone in Europe back to the U.S. for criminal indictment who demonstrates inappropriate possession of this technology.
However, I think the US would treat this as treason (like they wouldn't want nuclear scientist to work for other nations).
He is probably reviewing many exit options today.
And the context is quite different. The complaint about Trump relates more to what he is doing. Your complaint about Biden relates to something a party invitee did.
I guess a similarity is an element of virtue signalling. But if that is something you have a problem with then you must really hate Donald Trump because that seems to be his entire presidency. And the fight against homophobia is a legitimately virtuous activity. Right and wrong do exist.
But When your consistently injecting Trump into every discussion instead of focusing on the real problem it detracts from the entire discussion.
There is no connection between Trump and Athropic cleanup effort.