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I had lunch with the CEO of an AI infrastructure company recently. I can’t tell you their name, but they said something that really caught my attention: There will be a crop of new AI models later this year that will be a lot better and more efficient.

This will likely make AI tokens more abundant and radically cheaper. (Tokens are the basic units models use to process information, and the standard way AI use is measured and priced).

Hand-wringing about tokenmaxxing could die down. Or, users could go on another bender and burn even more tokens with abandon.

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=FBPAGE&fbclid=IwVERDUASaLlZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4S-dWk04qpaIJYIMsoMJfuqCY6Fe9S0VV-lrc7Ed73T9c0rj2Plq0of9sjqw_aem_a21o0vu38cNcOhJTV3S1vQ

The U.S. government just banned non-US citizens from using Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI

Anthropic is calling for a global “pause” on AI development, claiming that the technology is nearing a point where it can spiral out of human control.

In a lengthy blog post published Thursday, the world’s most valuable AI startup made the case that its Claude family of models were on the path to achieving “recursive self-improvement,” or the ability to improve themselves on their own, a key hypothetical tipping point that could lead to the creation of powerful AIs capable of operating outside human interests and harming society.

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement?fbclid=IwVERDUASaCqdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5b63EbVIzB02C5fMEmFKK7nCn-TEcXIM9rUAd0xNhJ-eTkw7-Refdlk5x_qQ_aem_FJcUd3hpeR1o3QMnNLaCJA

Fabled Risks
Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself
What’s really going on?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-concerned-models-ability-improve-itself?fbclid=IwdGRjcASaCXpjbGNrBJoJXmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHi5Ovblf_0fw3xwa7KaDz40Obj5PtlzSDflIVOU_ZEVIZCa9gM4s59aZr8vJ_aem_3ujg61KUcT8T88dxHO_S9A

Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous.

At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards, pointing at researchers who used it to discover thousands of vulnerabilities in widely-used open source code.

Months later, Anthropic was finally ready to go public with the model. On Tuesday, the Dario Amodei-led company announced a Mythos-powered model called Fable 5, which it claims is “safe for general use.”

However, new safeguards quickly frustrated AI researchers, who accused the company of intentionally lobotomizing Fable 5. The backlash was so fierce, Anthropic quickly made adjustments to the policy, as Wired reported on Wednesday, highlighting just how carefully the company is treading.

In its original announcement, Anthropic claimed the safeguards were designed to stop Fable 5 from improving itself, in “new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development.” Just days ahead of the launch, Anthropic released a report on “when AI builds itself,” a trend that “might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems.”

However, AI researchers were not impressed by Anthropic hamstringing its latest model’s abilities.

“Anthropic’s latest model will NOT help you if it thinks your ML research/ML engineering is interesting, and/or will secretly degrade its IQ so that the average engineer won’t notice,” AI research firm SemiAnalysis tweeted.

“It felt like Anthropic was saying to the public, ‘We don’t trust anybody else to do AI research,” AI startup Prime Intellect research lead Will Brown told the publication. “We are the only ones who have to do AI research.”

It all comes in the context Anthropic calling for a global freeze on AI advances while discussing the dangers of “recursive self-improvement.” In other words, the company is making a lot of noise about a sci-fi-sounding possibility: that AI will start to rapidly improve itself, potentially escaping the control of its human creators.

Beyond limiting its ability to develop AI tools, Fable 5’s new safeguards also trigger when it encounters requests “related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, or distillation.” Distillation is effectively using machine learning to train a “student” model on the behavior and reasoning of a “teacher” model, a practice that has sparked its fair share of controversy.

Anthropic has already publicly griped about large-scale attempts to distill, or “extract” its underlying model — a hypocritical stance given its indiscriminate scraping of rights-protected content on the web to train its AI in the first place.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.