Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic

The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic after a 24-hour effort to convince the company to voluntarily remove its new AI model Fable, which officials deemed a security risk. Senior officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, engaged in tense calls with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, while Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the model’s guardrails.