JASSY WARNS TRUMP ON MYTHOS 5, EXPORT BANS FOLLOW
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy joined other tech leaders in flagging security concerns about Mythos 5 to Trump administration officials this week. The warnings triggered new export restrictions on the technology.
The Information: Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Myt…
Leo Schwartz / The Information: Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies…
Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-link…
Politico: US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple ten…
Bloomberg: Canadian PM says the Anthropic ban shows the dangers of “over-reliance on certain models”, and compares the r…
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: senior Anthropic technical staff are in DC to meet WH officials and try to fix the Mythos 5…
Axios: Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it “sc…
Leo Schwartz / The Information: Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolutio…
Washington Post: Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, aft…
The Information: Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investo…
James Franey / New York Post: Sources: the Trump administration won't allow G7 countries to regain access to Mythos 5 as…
Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved…
The Information: Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several…
Financial Times: World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS…
Eleanor Mueller / Semafor: Sources: Trump officials discussed how to structure government equity stakes in AI companies,…
New York Times: A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notic…
Financial Times: Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Mac…
Wired: Sources: the White House's move to restrict Mythos 5 came after it ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea-based…
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI ch…
Yueqi Yang / The Information: Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from Novemb…
The engineers who spoke negatively about AI data centers at Seattle city hearings accuse Amazon of threatening their job…