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# The Anthropic Crackdown, Piece by Piece, Signals Worth Watching, The Lighter Side
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-06-15-am/
- Published: 2026-06-15T10:06:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-15T10:06:35.000Z
- Description: The Anthropic story grew legs over the weekend — and they lead back to Andy Jassy. The government’s move to export-control an American AI company’s own models is raising questions about who, exactly, this crackdown is for.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

The Anthropic story grew legs over the weekend — and they lead back to Andy Jassy. The government's move to export-control an American AI company's own models is raising questions about who, exactly, this crackdown is for.

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### Connected World

#### [Amazon CEO Reportedly Triggered the Anthropic Fable Ban](https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-jassy-triggered-anthropic-fable-mythos-crackdown?ref=adjacent.media)

Andy Jassy raising national security concerns about a model his company funds is the kind of competitive dynamic that antitrust lawyers will be studying for years. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Amazon Security Research Reportedly Led to the White House's Anthropic Fable Ban](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-government-ban?ref=adjacent.media)

The jailbreak that set this off was reportedly discovered by Amazon's own researchers — making the chain from investor to enforcer unusually short. *(The Verge)*

#### [Inside the Whirlwind 24 Hours That Led the White House to Slap Export Controls on Anthropic](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/13/inside-the-whirlwind-24-hours-that-led-the-white-house-to-slap-export-controls-on-anthropic-00961519?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and administration officials preceded the directive — Politico's tick-tock suggests the relationship broke down fast. *(Politico)*

#### [White House Move to Limit Anthropic Linked to Concerns About Chinese Access to Mythos](https://www.semafor.com/article/06/13/2026/white-house-move-to-limit-anthropic-linked-to-concerns-about-chinese-access-to-mythos?ref=adjacent.media)

Suspicions that a China-linked group had accessed Mythos add a harder national security dimension to what initially read as an interpersonal dispute. *(Semafor)*

#### [Luta Security CEO Calls Mythos Restrictions a "Complete Overreaction"](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-halts-access-to-top-ai-models-after-u-s-ban-on-foreign-use-a4bca2cc?st=sAwkD3&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

The security professional who reviewed the jailbreak report says the government's response didn't fit the actual risk — a notable dissent from within the threat-assessment community. *(Wall Street Journal)*

### Connected World

#### [NHS England Rolls Out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 Staff](https://thenextweb.com/news/nhs-england-microsoft-copilot-505000-staff-ai-rollout?ref=adjacent.media)

Forty-three minutes saved per clinician per day sounds modest until you multiply it across half a million people — this is the largest AI deployment in public healthcare on record. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Waymo Has Bought the Apple Car Self-Driving Test Site for $220M](https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/06/13/waymo-has-bought-the-apple-car-self-driving-test-site-for-220m?ref=adjacent.media)

Apple's abandoned 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground found perhaps the only buyer who actually needs it — a fitting coda to the Apple Car era. *(AppleInsider)*

#### [Nothing CEO: Memory Now Accounts for 50%+ of BOM in Some Phone Models](https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/949403/nothing-carl-pei-ram-phone-prices?ref=adjacent.media)

Carl Pei is warning that phone prices will keep climbing into 2027\. The culprit is memory costs, which have become the dominant line item. *(The Verge)*

#### [Everyone Wants to Tax A.I. The Big Disagreement: How?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/business/dealbook/ai-tax-proposals.html?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Sanders, Trump, and the AI companies themselves all claim to want the public to share in AI's wealth — their inability to agree on mechanism suggests none of them are in a hurry. *(NYT)*

#### [OpenAI Faces Investigation from State Attorneys General](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/openai-faces-investigation-from-state-attorneys-general/?ref=adjacent.media)

The probe covers ad policies, health data handling, and more — a broad enough mandate that it reads less like a targeted inquiry and more like states staking out turf ahead of federal inaction. *(TechCrunch)*

### Connected World

#### [The FBI Built Its Own Replica Small Town to Simulate Real-World Cyberattacks](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks/?ref=adjacent.media)

Hidden in an Alabama building, a fake town with working infrastructure is the FBI's answer to training cyber defenders — and honestly, it sounds like the most interesting place in law enforcement. *(TechCrunch)*