AI #173: AI Pauses
Zvi's AI Roundups · Zvi Mowshowitz · 2026-06-18
Zvi Mowshowitz's weekly AI roundup covers the White House's export-control shutdown of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over an alleged unjailbreakable 'jailbreak,' alongside Dario Amodei's FAA-style AI regulation proposal, MidJourney Medical's full-body scanner, and DeepSeek's $7.5B fundraise.
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Extraction
Topics: ai-policyai-regulationfrontier-aianthropicai-safety
Claims
- The White House shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 via export controls after Amazon reported an alleged jailbreak that consisted of asking the model to fix insecure code.
- The alleged jailbreak is technically unfixable because the ability to identify security vulnerabilities is inseparable from the ability to write secure code.
- Dario Amodei proposed FAA-style mandatory third-party testing for frontier AI models above a compute threshold, with government power to block deployment for four specific risk categories.
- Frontier general AI models outperformed specialized clinical AI in blind tests by 12 US clinicians, consistent with the 'bitter lesson' that scaling beats specialization.
- DeepSeek raised $7.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.
- MidJourney Medical announced a full-body ultrasound scanner capable of 60-second whole-body scans without radiation at low marginal cost, targeting spa deployments starting in late 2027.
Key quotes
The Trump administration now says that Fable can come back online when Anthropic 'fixes' this 'jailbreak.' That is of course impossible. This cannot be fixed. Your AI is either highly skilled at and capable of writing secure code, or it is not.
I cannot emphasize enough how much, if any 'AI safety' advocate had proposed something like this, even as a conditional action in case of emergency, the extent to which everyone would have lost their f***ing minds and run that person out of town on a rail.
It is hard to make the case, at this point, that the restrictions on Fable are anything other than a naked demonstration of power to show who is in control.