Trump vs. Anthropic: The AI wars are heating up

Specifically, at the Department of Commerce, neither Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick nor William Kimmitt, undersecretary of commerce for international trade, knows a thing about AI. Just what we need, more political hacks deciding tech policy.

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So, how did they discover that Fable and Mythos were theoretically a danger to the US? Good question. According to The Wall Street Journal, it was Amazon CEO Andy Jassy who told the Trump administration that Fable was untrustworthy. Guess what? AWS offers its own full cloud AI stack, starting with Amazon Bedrock for foundation models, Amazon SageMaker for training and deployment, and a growing set of agentic AI tools and services.

In other words, Amazon is not a neutral party; it’s a competitor. Funny, that.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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