Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them - The New York Times

Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration’s move to limit their latest A.I. models. By Sheera FrenkelJulian E. Barnes and Dustin Volz Sheera Frenkel reported from San Francisco, and Julian Barnes and Dustin Volz from Washington. Executives at the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic received alarming news from the White House on Friday. They had less than 90 minutes, they were told, to take down their newest A.I. models over national security concerns. Inside the company, employees’ private group chats immediately lit up. Managers were instructed to prepare customers for a potential service disruption to the models, called Fable 5 and Mythos 5. But the messaging kept changing, with workers initially being told that the security problem was the ability of foreign companies to gain access to the systems, and later that a major vulnerability had been discovered in the models. In employee chats, Anthropic enginee

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