Ben Thompson: Anthropic's safety story is also its power story (stratechery.com)
Thompson traces a pattern: Mythos withheld as too dangerous in April, Fable released with guardrails in June and promptly jailbroken, then both gated under ITAR export controls. Safety, he argues, conveniently aligns with talent, mission, and business.
The sharpest rebuttal in the thread: you can't be on your way to 'power over everything' and get distilled into free Chinese models within months. Pick one. The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model.
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