Amazon called the White House Thursday night. Fable 5 was gone by Friday.
NDTV, TechCrunch, and The Verge reported June 13-14 on 24-hour internal talks that led the White House to order Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — with the Wall Street Journal citing Amazon CEO Andy Jassy as the source of the security concerns. This is an industry-shaping corporate event: the first time a sitting US government has pulled a publicly released frontier AI model on national security grounds.
Amazon jailbroke Mythos's national-security guardrails; 5+ firms confirmed the threat before Friday's 90-minute shutdown order.
Anthropic pre-cleared Fable 5 with regulators multiple times before June 9; Friday's 90-minute shutdown came with zero evidence shared.
US AI safety runs on CEO phone calls — no review board, no published criteria governed Friday's shutdown of Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Hidden truth: Amazon — Anthropic's investor AND cloud rival — filed the jailbreak report; Anthropic got 90 mins and zero technical evidence to verify it.Read the full breakdown →
Did Amazon's report to the White House constitute a conflict of interest given its investor and competitor status?
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