Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly told U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 to obtain information usable in cyberattacks, leading the government to impose an export control ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The Wall Street Journal, The Information, and Reuters reported that Amazon, a major Anthropic investor, shared security concerns about the models before the crackdown.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/anthropics-safety-warnings-may-have-just-backfired-the-government-has-pulled-the-plug-on-its-most-powerful-ai/ on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other government officials https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578 that Amazon researchers used Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 to obtain information that could be used in cyberattacks. The government subsequently imposed an export control ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. An Amazon spokesperson told the WSJ that while it’s “not uncommon for governments to seek our counsel on potential security risks,” the company does not disclose “the details of those discussions.” The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-jassy-raised-concerns-anthropic-model-trump-crackdown and Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-voiced-concerns-about-anthropic-ai-models-before-us-governments-crackdown-2026-06-13/ similarly reported that Amazon a major Anthropic investor https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spending-in-return/ had shared concerns about the security of Anthropic’s models. David Sacks, who Trump’s former AI czar who now co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, offered his own account of the discussions, claiming https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171 that “a highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG … came forward with information about a jailbreak.” Sacks added, “The Admin asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.”