US government forces Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI models over security fears

Anthropic disabled its two top-performing AI models on Friday, June 12 following an export control order from the U.S. Department of Commerce. It was an unusual instance of a government interfering with commercialization of frontier AI technology. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at 5:21 p.m. ET on Friday to restrict...