for almost two weeksAnthropic’s senior team members negotiated with the Trump Administration to try to repeal the highly restrictive export control directive. according to A new report from Wiredthose talks didn’t go well, and that was at least in part because CEO Dario Amodei was involved, but things reportedly went well after Amodei left the talks.
According to Wired, the White House is now talking to another Anthropic co-founder, Tom Brown (that’s his full title). according to his LinkedIn). “Tom Brown is not as weird as Dario and can be really busy,” an anonymous person involved in the calls told Wired. Amodei was reportedly difficult to deal with and was not a good listener, Wired’s sources claim.
Past report He claimed that Amodei had a tendency to “get involved” and “couldn’t control his emotions”. If you’ve ever watched Amodei’s videos, including those taken in friendly settings, you’ll notice that his natural facial expression is slightly uncomfortable, that he has a trumpet-like voice, that he waves his arms while he talks, and sometimes not just breaking eye contact, but tilting your head towards the ground when speaking.
According to what’s on the internet, Brown has the general edgy nerd way of speaking, but a warmer and more conventional version of the character. He smiles easily and his voice is softer and steadier than Amodei’s.
Wired says Brown is working on negotiations with Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s head of public policy. His way of speaking – again of those online— comes across as enthusiastic and on-message, while also seeming fairly disciplined and cautious, attributes that a job as head of public policy is likely to require.
Anthropic needs the White House to once again clear its Claude Fable 5 AI model, Anthropic’s most advanced frontier model for consumers, for general use. Anthropic calls the Fable 5 a “Mythos-class” model, meaning it’s built with the same core technology as the Claude Mythos Preview. which Anthropic considered too dangerous can be used by the public.
Fable 5 probably lacked features that made it a potential cybersecurity threat, however numerous sourcesAmazon researchers informed the White House shortly after the release that a jailbreak could easily bypass these safeguards. It was the White House before learning about jailbreak reported It was already worried about potential bad actors with Chinese interests entering the model, so it issued an export control order about three days after Fable 5 was released. It required Anthropic to prevent non-US citizens from using the Fable 5 (along with another, more exclusive model, the Mythos 5).
anthropic He announced that he was filming Fable 5 Offline on June 12. Negotiations between Anthropic and the White House soon began after.
