Howard Lutnick

“Howard Lutnick from our Commerce Department, friend of the show, does not want to ban Chinese models... they want to incentivize more U.S. frontier labs to develop better open source models.”

“Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick worked behind the scenes to make US crypto regulation more friendly to Tether, which is 5% owned by his family — a significant conflict of interest”

“Lutnick himself said we had to do this for rare earth minerals.”

“Amodei called Lutnick back that night after receiving the letter, realizing it effectively meant the models would have to be taken offline.”

“Lutnick made clear to Amodei the issue needed to be resolved fast and alerted the CEO that the company would be receiving a letter imposing sweeping export controls.”

“His office has 'worked closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the US Government and strengthen America's leadership in AI.'”

“Senior Trump administration officials have been weighing how to structure potential government equity stakes in major AI companies, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent favoring using AI stakes to seed Trump Accounts and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick preferring a sovereign wealth fund-style vehicle.”

“June 12, 5:21pm ET. Lutnick's letter imposes export controls on Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for any location outside the US and any foreign national inside it, including Anthropic's own non-citizen staff.”

“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.”