Arguably the only topic that's more controversial than AI criticism at the moment is really any mention of the Trump administration.

Well, late last week, both of these topics came together creating a tidal wave of chaos and recrimination.

Here's what happened if you haven't been following.

Back in April, Anthropic announced that their new large language model, which they called

Claude Mythos, was so good at finding bugs and computer clode that it was too dangerous

to release to the public.

Here were their exact words.

The fallout for economies, public safety, and national security could be severe.

Okay, fast forward to last week when Anthropic essentially said, hey, good news.

We added guardrails to mythos, and now it is safe.

They called this protected version of the model Fable 5,

and they made it widely available. On Friday, the U.S. government said, not so fast. Now, according to

David Sachs, who was until recently the White House AIsar, the administration had heard from an

independent researcher they trusted who said that he had easily evaded the guardrails that had been added to Fable 5.

The Commerce Department promptly placed Fable 5 and its unprotected version Mythos 5 on an export control list,

which means the company must suspend access to the model from all foreign nationals, which

presumably includes many of Anthropics' own employees who are here on visas and our foreign

nationals. They said they won't lift this restriction until Anthropic fixes to guard rail

issue. In response, Anthropic had no choice, but to temporarily shut down all access to

these two new models. All right, so that's what happened.

Almost immediately, the internet exploded, with most of its criticism focused on the typically

haphazard and inscrutable manner in which the Trump administration, as it usually does,

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