Howard Lutnick
U.S. Commerce Secretary who sent the export control letter to Anthropic triggering the model suspension.
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- The US government switched off Anthropic’s most powerful model 3 days after launch
“Commerce Secretary Lutnick: "They've done what we asked. They're back on the right side... We trust Anthropic." One day later, Pentagon's Emil Michael: "Anthropic is still a designated Supply Chain Risk at @DeptofWar and for the Defense Industrial Base."”
Source→“Nvidia's CEO met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to build a framework to give the government early access to the most advanced AI models.”
Source→“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”
Source→“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.”
Source→“Lutnick himself said we had to do this for rare earth minerals.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“Amodei called Lutnick back that night after receiving the letter, realizing it effectively meant the models would have to be taken offline.”
Source→“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.'”
Source→“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.”
Source→“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.”
Source→“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.”
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