David Sacks Steps Into Anthropic's Fable 5 Export-Control Fight

White House AI adviser David Sacks intervened in a dispute over export controls on Anthropic's frontier AI model, which the company itself had flagged as requiring unusual safeguards. The intervention highlights the tension between AI safety advocacy and regulatory enforcement.

Dario Amodei's Anthropic is now living inside the policy regime it helped make politically unavoidable: a U.S. government intervention against a frontier AI model that Anthropic itself had described as powerful enough to require unusual controls. The latest turn came Saturday, June 13, when David Sacks @DavidSacks , the White House's chief AI adviser, posted that he had held "a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government" about "the current situation with Anthropic." Sac...