X-Risk Daily logo

X-Risk Daily

Archives
Log in
Subscribe
June 15, 2026

US Government Orders Shutdown of Anthropic's Most Capable Models Over Jailbreak Concerns

Also: Anthropic restricts Fable 5 from frontier AI development, triggering power consolidation debate‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Monday 15 June 2026

Transformative AI
US Government Orders Shutdown of Anthropic's Most Capable Models Over Jailbreak Concerns
On 12 June, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei imposing export control restrictions on the company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing the AI lab to suspend access at 5:21pm ET that same day.

Also in this issue

Transformative AI
Anthropic restricts Fable 5 from frontier AI development, triggering power consolidation debate
Transformative AI
OpenAI outlines goal to build automated AI researcher by March 2028
Transformative AI
Senate Armed Services Committee Approves AI Guardrails Act for Pentagon
Geopolitics & Conflict
Trump tells Putin he will help end Ukraine war, claims Iran peace deal imminent
Research
DeepMind study finds AI safety behaviours resist data filtering, transfer unpredictably between models
Research
Continual learning could enable AI goal changes after deployment, eliminating safety interventions' last-mover advantage

… and 40 more in the full briefing

Read today's briefing →

Prefer a weekly digest? Click ‘manage your subscription’ below.

Got thoughts on today’s briefing? Just reply to this email — I’ll read and reply!

Generated automatically from 11 sources including Transformer, Sentinel, Epoch AI, LessWrong, and EA Forum.

Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to X-Risk Daily:
Powered by Buttondown, the easiest way to start and grow your newsletter.