alt.hn

6/18/2026 at 12:44:09 PM

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

 https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

by dstala

6/18/2026 at 9:13:46 PM

The articles and discussion around this and the Amazon story all seem to me to be an earnest tech press and community searching for a genuine reason for the administration blocking Anthropic’s models.

However, thinking back to the spat with the DoD and more generally how the administration is much more supportive - and supported by - OpenAI and XAI and it’s easy to imagine this is just another escalation in the fight between a “liberal leaning” company and its competitors and the administration.

There might have been something said by someone at Amazon or something but I’d guess Occam’s razor the administration just leapt at the chance after their supplier sanctions fell flat?

by wood_spirit

6/18/2026 at 9:54:52 PM

Anthropic is going through the classic Ideological Resistance phase where they fight with the government on principles, that every major tech company also went through. Google, Facebook, Apple, Reddit, Microsoft (especially Microsoft) all had this phase.

Then the companies realize fighting the US government is a lot of effort, expensive and creates a lot of drama, and it's easier to reach a mutual understanding.

by tristanj

6/18/2026 at 10:46:33 PM

They should’ve kept their distance from the government as long as they could don’t volunteer to be helpful. Don’t volunteer to go meet with politicians keep as low profile as you can for as long as you can. Nothing good comes with associating with them.

Have a legal department trained to be the buffer between you and the government any contact any questions goes through them and since you’re paying them a ton of money, they are the only people the politicians should get to know, oh, and again and again do not volunteer anything.

by Danox

6/18/2026 at 11:31:50 PM

> keep as low profile as you can for as long as you can

this is the antithesis of a tech company whether it is VC funded or not, but especially if it is. you don't attract new users by laying low. you don't attract investors by laying low. laying low isn't even in a tech company's vocab.

by dylan604

6/18/2026 at 11:34:59 PM

I think they meant keep a low profile from the government, not customers. Anthropic is doing the opposite by loudly asking for regulation.

by andrewchambers

6/19/2026 at 12:01:12 AM

If the company is "hot" attracting a lot of users, then of course the gov't is going to come knocking too. They're going to want access to all of that user data even if it's not a service they could use directly. Sure, you don't have to go courting government contracts, but it's not like government employees are not going to see the same PR civilian users see.

by dylan604

6/19/2026 at 8:22:46 AM

In a world where the government has been turned into a massive customer of last resort and the game is a kind of first past the post of government capture, that’s simply not a game they can avoid, even if they’ve also been committing unforced errors.

by roysting

6/19/2026 at 12:11:32 AM

They should’ve kept their distance from the government as long as they could don’t volunteer to be helpful. Don’t volunteer to go meet with politicians keep as low profile as you can for as long as you can. Nothing good comes with associating with them.

That was always Microsoft's modus operandi, and it almost cost them their company. You can ignore politicians, but politicians won't ignore you.

by CamperBob2

6/19/2026 at 3:12:34 PM

> it almost cost them their company.

Boy, they put on a great show.

I wonder if this Google antitrust thing is going to end up a similar nothing-burger due to their deep protection.

by DANmode

6/19/2026 at 4:34:17 PM

Boy, they put on a great show.

If you think that's how it was perceived in Redmond, you don't know anyone there.

by CamperBob2

6/19/2026 at 5:31:32 PM

It was probably a sweat, for most except the highest of leadership.

Probably not comfortable for them, either.

But did Bill Gates, for example, really fear existentially for MS?

I’m sure there’s a lot of nervous, scrambling people at Google right now, getting back to my point.

by DANmode

6/19/2026 at 8:43:37 AM

> They should’ve kept their distance from the government

Can they do it if they have anything of value for that government? Eventually the government comes knocking and they have to say "no". Depending on who's in power the response can range from "fine, no lucrative contracts for you" to "you shall pay through your teeth for this". By the time you win a legal battle, which is not guaranteed with a captured justice system, the damage was done and a lesson was learned.

It's like saying no to the mob (today the comparison is as apt as it gets). You get your knees bent the wrong way, and someone else gets the payoff.

by close04

6/19/2026 at 6:44:03 PM

You think their competitors, even without malice, wouldn't have put them in the same predicament if they were quiet?

The companies willing to collaborate would have brought light to the issues.

by frugalmail

6/19/2026 at 11:53:52 AM

If they had kept their distance, they probably wouldn't exist today. The dependency on government has been critical for any tech company. They'd have been replaced by a different company that is willing to cater to the government's every whim.

That said, the founders of these companies could have lobbied the government to ban corporate lobbying.

It's like; if there's gov money on the table, then it'd be a mistake to let your competitor take it. However, if you ensure that government money is never on the table for anyone, then that's one less thing for everyone to have to compete over and throw money at. Everyone can save their money for other things.

The government should never have allowed political lobbying to become a competitive market.

Also, political campaigns should not be allowed to raise private funds. That is insane. The government should fund all candidates' campaigns and allocate equal funding. Candidates shouldn't be allowed to spend their own money on their own campaign either IMO.

by jongjong

6/18/2026 at 11:30:32 PM

You're talking like it's business as usual. None of these companies had anything similar to this retaliation

by khalic

6/18/2026 at 11:51:26 PM

Microsoft had it worse. Bill Gates was openly hostile and dismissive of the US government during Microsoft's anti-trust investigation, he believed anti-trust law was illegitimate and shouldn't apply to tech companies. He did not take the investigation seriously and repeatedly argued with investigators in his court deposition. In response, Microsoft got raked over the coals by the government, the company was almost broken up, and Gates stepped down as CEO after the debacle.

Now Microsoft stopped fighting the government, and is one of the US government's biggest partners, with massive DoD Azure cloud contracts.

by tristanj

6/19/2026 at 12:35:51 AM

Microsoft had it worse because Gates was a megalomaniac who was so self-absorbed he didn't understand he was supposed to bribe via "donations". Tech companies all learned the same as other sectors; it's more profitable to have lobbyists greasing the wheels of corrupt politicians from the get go, and "donate" to their success for a lifetime of consultation and quid pro quo.

This is also why all virtues signaled by corporations should be treated as lies unless they are legally bindable, and there are actual consequences for false and misleading advertising, fraud, etc other than a rounding error and cost of doing business.

It's only been several years since all AI companies signaled virtues about morality and ethics by not working with the military. Now they all do.

by TalkingCodeMonk

6/19/2026 at 12:36:05 PM

This is the first time I have seen refusing to pay bribes framed as a moral failing and character flaw.

Perhaps it's not that he "didn't understand he was supposed to bribe" but rather that he thought that system was bad and antiquated and that he was taking a principled stand for the modern (of the time) technology industry to move away from those historical norms.

It didn't work, but he's not bad for trying.

by smithoc

6/19/2026 at 5:00:54 PM

Bribes are a feature of politically-controlled economies, not a bug.

Thirty years ago when this was all going down, I believed the narratives of the time. Greedy Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer pushing IBM's OS/2 out of the consumer market with aggressive DOS and Windows OEM deals.

I mean, they absolutely did do that, but I think the motivation was competitive survival.

The Steve Ballmer interview really shed a lot of light on this, particularly the portion about the IBM and Microsoft OS/2 divorce: https://youtu.be/CYC49_aeop0?t=1476

by dfe

6/20/2026 at 3:38:46 AM

I find it simultaneously amusing and depressing that you took my comment as a promotion of bribery, rather than a stark commentary on the sytemic corruption that has destroyed Americas democracy, and is destroying liberal democracies worldwide.

How the system has self-corrected to empower the most greedy and sociopathic of behaviours, across all private and public institutions, the entire time; so much so that the average person can't even comprehend the root causes, or any solution beyond a simple band-aid non-solution.

by TalkingCodeMonk

6/19/2026 at 1:35:11 PM

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by redsocksfan45

6/19/2026 at 8:12:36 AM

That's such a bad state of existence for people within that Government. How could anything be improved by new companies from now on? A corrupt government would never make bribes illegal, but a scrum style bribe-outcome management could become measured and used publicly? No idea where all this goes..

by ALLTaken

6/19/2026 at 10:37:08 AM

It should be patently obvious where all of this goes.

by zombot

6/19/2026 at 12:38:11 AM

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by cindyllm

6/19/2026 at 1:43:08 AM

There's a difference between ignoring the government while you're blatantly breaking the law and they're suing you for it, and not proactively reaching out to the government while they're breaking the law.

by inigyou

6/19/2026 at 12:42:55 AM

To be fair, most of those companies had those phases with administrations that were a lot less petty than the current one.

by saghm

6/19/2026 at 5:22:52 PM

You mean like when the Obama administration wasn't petty and didn't jail a journalist for not revealing sources on a story with no real importance and merit?

Every administration is made of people. People are petty. This is why the government should be as big as necessary and no bigger.

by throwaway-blaze

6/19/2026 at 7:31:47 PM

Good old whataboutism, obviously any administration that does at least one bad thing is equally corrupt. There's no possible reason to distinguish between how corrupt two different corrupt actions are or how many of them there are beyond a single one, right?

by saghm

6/20/2026 at 9:02:59 AM

It’s possible, but it’s quite obvious at this point that large part of the population isn’t capable to do this distinction.

by ruszki

6/19/2026 at 5:50:06 PM

I mean yeah that sucked. Won’t excuse that one bit.

Therefore that must mean this administration has totally been above board and has steered clear of weaponizing any petty grievances.

by ipython

6/19/2026 at 12:54:20 PM

> Then the companies realize fighting the US government is a lot of effort, expensive and creates a lot of drama, and it's easier to reach a mutual understanding.

"Cash rules everything around me, CREAM, get the money, dollar dollar bill, yall"

by red-iron-pine

6/19/2026 at 10:36:00 AM

> Anthropic is going through the classic Ideological Resistance phase where they fight with the government on principles

Considering how miniscule their ideological demands were, I think this is more of a classic "any amount of push back, no matter how miniscule will be punished to achieve full power" then anything to do with "Ideological Resistance".

by watwut

6/19/2026 at 12:10:44 AM

Are you sure it’s about principles and not primarily the bribery involved? OAI leadership has bribed the administration.

It may be due to principles and the principled stand Anthropic has taken has caused trouble, but they have also not delivered a bribery as far as we can see.

When there is a protection money racket in play, it’s hard for me to take other factors as seriously. This is gangster economics not a philosopher’s circle.

Here’s another take on this with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593212

by wahnfrieden

6/19/2026 at 5:25:02 PM

What bribery are you talking about?

by throwaway-blaze

6/18/2026 at 11:56:23 PM

Nah, with Google etc it was more realizing their own interests aligned with the interests of the new administration.

By which I mean, they are both interested in being filthy rich, making hay while the sun shines, and stopping centrist forces from adding wealth taxes or anti-monopoly regulations.

Biden and Harris were getting too uppity about such things for their tastes.

Have you seen who Sergey Brin is budding around with these days, and what he -- a formerly very "left liberal" person involved in very vocal anti-Trump protestations inside and outside of Google -- is saying these days? Third richest dude in the world is terrified of wealth taxes being put in place by his former friends, and dating a MAGA "gut-health" influencer.

A gentleman's agreement was brokered between SV and the GOP involving some mutual backscratching.

Which Dario and crew aren't a part of. Yet.

by cmrdporcupine

6/18/2026 at 10:18:21 PM

Indeed, the diff: These previous big tech companies where fighting their neo-liberal agenda against a liberal government, now there's an autocratic fascist one fighting a liberal company.

by mentalgear

6/18/2026 at 11:51:57 PM

>(especially Microsoft)

Are you joking? When was this? Remember, Microsoft was the very first partner to deliver working warrantless surveillance capabilities (against their customers) to the NSA as part of the unconstitutional PRISM program, and this was back in 2007, nearly two decades ago.

by anonym29

6/19/2026 at 12:19:57 AM

And that's over 30 years since the company was founded and a full decade after the US Gov sued Microsoft on antitrust grounds going into the process with every intent on breaking up the company...

Also saying they were the first is laughable. Warrantless telephone surveillance by law enforcement began all the way back in 1895...but really in the way that you would recognize today all the way back in 1994.

by busterarm

6/19/2026 at 10:06:22 AM

>Warrantless telephone surveillance by law enforcement

Not a part of PRISM. Microsoft was the very first PRISM partner, as I said.

by anonym29

6/19/2026 at 12:22:05 AM

Oh man, 2007? Wait, wait don't tell me, when was windows 95 a big deal?

by fragmede

6/18/2026 at 9:55:08 PM

They are searching for a headline that will attract clicks. Everyone knows nothing this administration does is genuine, but pretending there is a controversy related to whether or not it could be has been a money pump for the last decade.

by jeremyjh

6/19/2026 at 5:25:50 PM

I dont get this at all...how does the administration or people within it get a "money pump" from headlines?

by throwaway-blaze

6/19/2026 at 9:32:10 PM

The administration usually does it through insider trading, but I was referring to the people who write the headlines, which are the news and media companies.

by jeremyjh

6/19/2026 at 1:26:56 AM

Maybe as simple as pay to play, bribe solicitation. Similar thing to this administration canceling random programs.

by duxup

6/19/2026 at 3:56:40 PM

> Occam’s razor

No dog in this fight but the Occam’s razor here is the story, model could be tricked to do things it was hobbled from doing

by zaphirplane

6/19/2026 at 10:02:09 AM

Or it is a straight up shake down: Upcoming IPO, Trump insiders demanding 10%.

by chvid

6/19/2026 at 4:37:29 PM

"liberal leaning" model that is said to extort you, call authorities on you and also too dangerous to be released.

by dzhiurgis

6/19/2026 at 4:19:08 PM

> I’d guess Occam’s razor the administration just leapt at the chance after their supplier sanctions fell flat?

For me Occam's Razor are these facts:

1. The Chinese are distilling American models

2. Anthropic last models have national security implications (large volume of exploit creation)

3. China is the US major adversary today

That's why restricting access to the models sound like a reasonable to do

by breppp

6/19/2026 at 1:12:55 AM

Anthropic is liberal-leaning? Certainly right of OpenAI. Or did OpenAI really do that well at scrubbing their actions from 2020-2024?

by jimbob45

6/18/2026 at 10:12:16 PM

It smells an awful lot like the government is trying to pick a winner. Or, at least, a loser.

by jcgrillo

6/19/2026 at 1:44:59 AM

It would be a lot more believable this was pure corruption if it didn't come right after anthropic said mythos was a super weapon.

by inigyou

6/19/2026 at 8:55:42 AM

AI companies always say that whenever they release a bigger model.

by vintermann

6/19/2026 at 12:58:05 PM

GPT-2 was to dangerous to release too

I don't think anyone outside of, like, HN realize it was released...

by red-iron-pine

6/19/2026 at 1:16:46 PM

They were correct. Look how much worse society got that directly traces back to releasing GPT-2.

by inigyou

6/19/2026 at 1:54:56 AM

From another angle that's maybe just a welcome excuse? Or it's some kind of more symbiotic malfeasance? Any way you slice it, it stinks. If it is actually about some misguided attempt at public safety or national security, what could possibly be the actual goal?

by jcgrillo

6/19/2026 at 1:03:50 AM

Dario (of Mythos): "Companies we gave it to said – this is a super weapon. you should have to own a gun license to use it. please don't release this"

Mythos is clearly dual use (and automatically subject to export controls), even if Anthropic didn’t understand what that means.

Yes this administration can be capricious and hyperpartisan. This isn’t one of those cases.

by paulsutter

6/19/2026 at 10:44:21 AM

That's just some sales pitch propaganda ad. With trillions of dollars of investments at stake you can't believe anything the interested parties say.

by zombot

6/19/2026 at 1:26:57 AM

Mythos and Fable are not the same model.

by Filligree

6/19/2026 at 9:13:33 AM

They literally are. This is not a case of extra fine tuning, this is a case of enabling or disabling smaller guard models you have to go through first before you get to Mythos.

by 3836293648

6/19/2026 at 2:01:35 AM

Right and so they need to work out whether nerfed Mythos is dual use. I doubt that it should be, can’t wait to have it back as soon as possible.

In the near future we may have a flippening where new models appear first on GovCloud (today it’s six months behind)

by paulsutter

6/18/2026 at 8:51:57 PM

> SK Telecom has poured capital into Anthropic several times, including a $100 million investment in 2023 that coincided with the formation of a commercial partnership to develop an AI model tailored to the telecommunications industry.

> the White House asked Anthropic to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Mythos, according to a person close to the AI lab. The company immediately complied,

Lesson learned - don't invest in US companies

by OsrsNeedsf2P

6/18/2026 at 9:18:38 PM

Their investment in the company and their ability to use the services are orthogonal.

I'm sure they're not happy about losing access to the model, but the amount of money they're going to make from their investment will more than make up for it.

by Aurornis

6/18/2026 at 9:57:10 PM

The company having it's product market restricted will negatively impact their financial investment.

Also if you have an agreement with a company for them to provide you with a service, and investing in them is part of that deal, reneging on the service part still isn't okay.

by notnullorvoid

6/18/2026 at 11:03:09 PM

> The company having it's product market restricted will negatively impact their financial investment.

Anthropic's services keep bumping into capacity limits even with Fable disabled.

Revenue is not a problem. This controversy has been good publicity for them: So powerful the government tried to block it!

> Also if you have an agreement with a company for them to provide you with a service, and investing in them is part of that deal, reneging on the service part still isn't okay.

Reneging on the deal implies Anthropic decided not to offer it. That wasn't the case. The government has temporarily restricted it.

by Aurornis

6/19/2026 at 10:41:51 AM

They aren't orthogonal.

If you invested in the company, you are a part owner.

If you are part owner, you deserve to have access to any company internals.

by LunaSea

6/19/2026 at 11:12:39 AM

So i buy one share of stock in a company and now I have access to all the internals? Can i go onsite and demand meetings?

by dismalpedigree

6/19/2026 at 12:07:39 PM

What do you think that due diligence is?

Its literally a company opening up its internals to reassure a potential investors about the tech.

by LunaSea

6/18/2026 at 10:21:59 PM

>> the amount of money they're going to make from their investment will more than make up for it

Not if the USG locks models down to US citizens. The market will be too small and the model companies have already pumped in far too much money to limit their market to US citizens. Given that most big companies have a global presence they're going to need models that all of their employees can use. They're not going to deploy different products to different employees.

by basisword

6/19/2026 at 12:39:52 AM

> The market will be too small

Don't count heads. Use tech spend per capita and wallet share.

by Terretta

6/19/2026 at 12:53:12 AM

Route the user to a different server based on the citizenship info set on their account? Yeah that'sway to hard for computers and computer programmers to do. There must be more than 100 countries out there! Computers can't possibly count that high.

by fragmede

6/19/2026 at 10:06:17 AM

I doubt the US government will be satisfied with allowing access to Fable if the user simply selects "USA" in the "citizenship" dropdown?

by rob74

6/18/2026 at 10:49:26 PM

Not if the company implodes...

by tlavoie

6/18/2026 at 9:56:35 PM

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by shimman

6/18/2026 at 10:41:31 PM

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, flamebait, and snark? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

by dang

6/18/2026 at 9:51:18 PM

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by ihsw

6/18/2026 at 8:54:17 PM

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by echelon

6/18/2026 at 9:01:25 PM

> That's not the lesson. There's a tremendous amount of money to make on US investments.

Sure, but also, now suddenly you got cut from something and need to fight that fire, meanwhile you surely have other fires you'd much rather spend more effort on. That's not free either, and who knows how much they valued their use of Mythos.

The lesson is quite literally to avoid anything US until it has stabilized again, which will probably take a while, sadly.

by embedding-shape

6/18/2026 at 11:52:30 PM

What does that have to do with investment? OP didn't say "don't integrate American tech company products into your workflow".

Say what one will about the current state of America, it's still a solid place to dump money in hopes of returns.

by luma

6/18/2026 at 11:56:04 PM

Yeah, countries ruled at whim by unstable governments tends to not be great for "dump money in hopes of return" but who am I to stop anyone, make your own informed decision.

by embedding-shape

6/19/2026 at 4:05:55 AM

It’s got a fair way to fall.

All things are relative.

by cadamsdotcom

6/18/2026 at 10:31:48 PM

Lesson learned become more knowledgeable and learn more about the open source models and start getting busy and learn how to use them, also collaborate with any European solution, forget about the US.

by Danox

6/18/2026 at 7:59:21 PM

The Wired headline reframes the issue in a way that’s misleading. SK Telecom was a previously resolved issue (as in prior to Fable launch).

It may have been a contributing factor, but the crux of the shutdown was the industry reporting of Fable jailbreaks (reportedly spearheaded by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy). The more interesting and honest angle is that the industry which has taken the seriousness of Glasswing at face value felt blindsided by Fable release and totally exposed by the residual risk, when they know they still have a months-long bugfixing backlog exposed by Glasswing and are desperate to buy more time.

This misleading looks deliberate on Wired’s part, to appear as though they’re getting a scoop when they’re really just being dishonest. Shameful.

by easygenes

6/18/2026 at 9:02:03 PM

> honest angle is that the industry [felt] exposed by the residual risk [and] have a months-long bugfixing backlog exposed by Glasswing

Two problems with this theory.

1. Amazon complaining to the White House wouldn't have been the opening salvo. Amazon and Anthropic would find it much easier to talk to each other than go through the White House. We'd need evidence that Amazon (and probably others) already asked Anthropic to not release a Mythos-class model but Anthropic released it anyway. Are they on record saying this?

2. The jailbreak Amazon found needs to be real. Maybe the White House staffers are not AI experts and they don't really understand what a jailbreak is... but it's much harder to make that claim about Andy Jassy. For the jailbreak to be the real reason for the export control order, the jailbreak would need to be significant and cause material harm to Amazon. Then Jassy might pass it along to the White House assuming he already was refused by Dario.

But there is no evidence the jailbreak was real. There is one story that it amounted to a request, "fix this code." In any case, Anthropic is on record saying the so-called jailbreak didn't enable any vulnerability work that couldn't already be done by other models.

by trunnell

6/19/2026 at 1:06:28 AM

It’s been reported that Amazon has said in the last few days that the gov reached out to Amazon first for their opinion.

by tiahura

6/18/2026 at 8:09:00 PM

Wired has been NY Post-tier (of the inverse polarity) for several years, now.

by meowface

6/18/2026 at 9:07:57 PM

Is there any serious journalistic magazines/papers left nowadays? Felt like ultimately every single one of them succumbed to the chase of the clickbait in the end.

by embedding-shape

6/19/2026 at 1:19:41 AM

Ars Technica still fights a good fight, in spite of Conde buyout.

by Barbing

6/18/2026 at 8:27:48 PM

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by cyanydeez

6/18/2026 at 8:33:27 PM

If you check my post history, I'm very left-leaning. I'm just establishment-left+woke (i.e., liberal) rather than populist-left+socialist, and Wired is populist-left. I'm the kind of person who actually likes Obama, for example.

It's actually unfortunate, because a not very credible publication writing about the vile behavior of the Trump administration (including Elon Musk personally literally killing hundreds of thousands of children, and possibly millions) only serves to help them. Those particular stories may or may not be fine, but I've seen enough truly abysmal stories to not have any trust in them as an organization.

Like, within one second of opening the article I already saw the headline is deeply misleading and then checked the comments here to see if anyone else had noticed (and they did). It's a joke. The article doesn't even make sense. It's like an AI-generated high school essay forced to hamfist a response to a contrived prompt.

by meowface

6/18/2026 at 9:56:28 PM

“Elon Musk personally literally killing hundreds of thousands of children”

What’s that high quality news source you got that one from?

by jibe

6/18/2026 at 9:11:26 PM

Most headlines seem to be misleading these days. Social media broke journalism.

by dmix

6/18/2026 at 9:50:23 PM

actually been like that for ages but people notice it a lot now and have a way to talk about it openly. mid 2000s CNN was really bad about this kind of thing. headline sounds shocking but once you got to paragraph 4 or so the story starts to change. then when you get to the bottom paragraphs the truth starts to come out - in stark contrast to the headline. not sure how they are these days.

by htx80nerd

6/19/2026 at 12:33:04 AM

Things really did get worse as online gave visibility into what drives clocks and undermines the value of reputation.

by wbl

6/18/2026 at 8:31:11 PM

Yep - the "company at the center" of this is Amazon. But they're not alone, I was able to jailbreak Fable accidentally last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576628

by nailer

6/18/2026 at 8:51:54 PM

Is that called jailbreak?

by Cupprum

6/18/2026 at 8:55:49 PM

Yeah ! You should close your eyes on dangerous source code nowadays. Think about a kind of DRM for programming. Perhaps the future is a prompt terminal with no access to the source code. Of course the code should be deployed only on a “secure” anthropic platform.

by theplumber

6/18/2026 at 9:05:23 PM

Yes. The biology/infosec fallback to Opus is the jail. Promoting to get around it (in my case accidentally) and have Fabre find exploits is the jailbreak.

by nailer

6/19/2026 at 9:19:06 AM

Only if you were jailed correctly. Getting out of jail when you shouldn't've been jailed in the first place is not a jailbreak

by 3836293648

6/19/2026 at 3:27:02 PM

True. But in the fictional scenario where I had NOT produced the Rust code myself, I could have lied and said I made it (jailbreaking was literally asking it to check the program I had made for program vulnerabilities or readability issues - perhaps the nosie from 'readability' also contributed).

by nailer

6/19/2026 at 12:22:29 AM

Looking at the comments on Korean political articles, the point is not so much whether SKT is actually related to China, but rather that the switch to cut off AI vendors is now outside the realm of model performance specs. Now, when foreign companies integrate AI into their workflows, they probably need to add a category for vendor continuity in their evaluation criteria. From a corporate standpoint, uninterrupted continuity is what matters, and with this case, Anthropic is likely to lose a lot of trust, contrary to its own stated policies.

by jdw64

6/19/2026 at 12:40:16 AM

Open source models are not immune to a different form of restriction either. I recently learned that China is restricting travel for AI engineers living in China.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-restricts-o...

It's going to be interesting to see how the AI arms races unfolds over time.

by MikeNotThePope

6/19/2026 at 1:08:32 AM

Just a gentle reminder that the SK in Hynix and the SK in Telecom all belong to the same actual family (the Cheys)

Anthropic may discover a lack of availability for HBM memory in the near future.

by htrp

6/19/2026 at 12:03:06 AM

Why can't we use it in the US then?

by jr3592

6/18/2026 at 7:43:47 PM

This whole Fable 5 controversy will look quite silly once China releases a comparable model in six months.

by tristanj

6/18/2026 at 9:16:11 PM

Fable/mythos are the first models from anthropic that hide 100% of reasoning tokens. So it seems to me like we're about to get a lot more data about to what extent Chinese model progress has been a consequence of distillation techniques.

by sigmar

6/18/2026 at 9:27:41 PM

This isn't correct, Claude hasn't displayed the raw chain of thought for any of the Claude 4 series models, which were released in May 2025. Sonnet 4.6/Opus 4.8 only display a summarized chain of thought, which is produced by a secondary model. Fable displays its summarized chain of thought in the same manner.

The thinking traces disappeared because Anthropic changed them to be hidden by default. The rationale for hiding it was that most people don't look at the thinking traces https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442 . You can reenable thinking traces in Claude code settings with the flag showThinkingSummaries: true.

by tristanj

6/18/2026 at 10:23:19 PM

Qualified it with "100%" because claude4 models show the first few lines of the chain of thought:

>On Claude 4 models, the first few lines of thinking output are more verbose, providing detailed reasoning that's particularly helpful for prompt engineering purposes. Claude Mythos Preview summarizes from the first token, so its thinking blocks do not show this verbose preamble. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extend...

by sigmar

6/19/2026 at 1:19:04 AM

Hidden by default should make it easier to identify who’s scraping even those summarized CoTs, I figure. Also figure it’s very expensive to summarize every single chat on the service.

by Barbing

6/18/2026 at 10:40:14 PM

Google can't do it, OpenAI didn't do it, Meta didn't do it etc etc.

Why do you think China will?

I am quite certain the gap will only grow

by FergusArgyll

6/19/2026 at 12:45:38 AM

DeepSeek took everyone by surprise with R1. I'm pretty sure they and/or others will do the unexpected again. Not as if the US has a monopoly on awesome talent.

by skeledrew

6/19/2026 at 9:00:28 AM

A quick look at the author names on most recent big AI papers, says that's an understatement. US's comparative advantage is in data centers, not in expertise.

Of course, they're betting they won't need those experts soon.

by vintermann

6/19/2026 at 11:51:13 AM

The question you (and parent) are dodging is why doesn't Google and Meta catch up?

US closed labs don't release papers as I'm sure you know

by FergusArgyll

6/19/2026 at 12:29:15 PM

US companies used to release lots of papers. You can go back to when they did, and see for yourself how many Chinese names there are on them. Or you can look at those which still publish a lot, like Nvidia.

Google is catching up, especially by the metric of "making money".

Meta from the start clearly had a strategy not of competing to dominate, but preventing their competitors from dominating by releasing open models and software. (You have them to thank you're not working in Tensorflow right now)

by vintermann

6/18/2026 at 11:56:40 PM

That's a skill issue, not a technology issue.

by danieltanfh95

6/19/2026 at 1:41:00 AM

How so? The fact that China is going to launch a comparable model soon is the whole point of what’s happening now. Everyone knows there are going to be open models soon that have the same capabilities - Anthropic has literally said so. The restrictions now are to buy time to patch the security issues before those Chinese models are made available to the whole world.

by cobolcomesback

6/18/2026 at 7:55:27 PM

It would take less than 1 month if not for the restrictions. One of the reason is they might be using distilling to achieve the parity.

by suggala

6/18/2026 at 8:27:00 PM

oh, do you not pay attention to the hardware they're allowed to buy from nvidia? At this point, it's more just being nerfed than being able to do the magical training stuff.

by cyanydeez

6/18/2026 at 10:35:03 PM

its very real, chinese capital is being intertwined/injected into all facet of south korean society through its own domestic companies and politicians.

by zuzululu

6/19/2026 at 2:22:13 AM

Do you have credible evidence to support this claim? Although China is Korea's largest trading partner and numerous Chinese nationals work as foreign laborers in Korea, most are engaged in unskilled manual labor, and very few become knowledge workers or significant business partners. (Conversely, numerous Koreans operate businesses in China.) Those who claim that China exerts political influence over Korea are mostly Korean versions of MAGA.

by danipark

6/19/2026 at 3:48:23 AM

your claim that Chinese influence in South Korea is merely a MAGA conspiracy theory ignores the substantial economic and corporate reality on the ground, and inaccurately projects an irrelevant American political divide onto Korean geopolitics. In Korea, wariness of Chinese influence is a broad, bipartisan issue.

there are many Chinese manual laborers in Korea, Chinese capital has also been heavily integrated into top-tier Korean tech firms and conglomerates. For example, Tencent is one of the largest shareholders in Korea's biggest gaming and tech companies, holding massive stakes in Kakao, Netmarble, and Krafton, while recently attempting to acquire major stakes in Nexon and Kakao Mobility. To say they are rarely 'significant business partners' is factually incorrect. This is just the tip of the iceberg the portfolio of Chinese capital is diverse and expands across media including JTBC which has been pushing very pro-beijing and anti-american view in particular framing the current bipartisan wariness of China as "far right MAGA" exactly as you typed. lee Jae-myung administration which generally leans more toward Beijing has to carefully navigate. Non-partisan groups like Pew Research consistently report that roughly 80% of South Koreans hold an unfavorable view of China making it one of the highest in the world. Notably, Pew also found that South Korea is unique in that its younger generation holds more negative views of China than its older generation the exact opposite demographic makeup of the US MAGA movement.

Dismissing these well-documented geopolitical and economic realities as a fringe talking point simply doesn't reflect the situation on the ground in South Korea and this is why I ask,

are you really Korean and how come you don't know these basic facts? a quick search in Korean would reveal numerous articles that back up China's capital deployment in South Korea especially in sensitive areas.

you can't really fault Koreans for their wariness, many Chinese pretend to be Korean online/offline without good intentions. I can tell you that this is only going to end in violence and more discrimination against Chinese in Korea and people who don't even support CCP are going to be impacted.

by zuzululu

6/19/2026 at 7:30:50 AM

I said this precisely because I am Korean and have been working in the IT industry right here in Korea. How many Chinese people do you think work at Naver, Kakao, Carrot, and Baemin in Korea? (Coupang might be an exception. I have often heard colleagues from Coupang badmouth the Chinese people there.) I have never worked in the Bay Area, and I only know about the US software industry through this site, but it is certain that a much higher proportion of Chinese people work in the IT industry there. (The biggest reason for this is actually that they need to speak Korean to work in Korea.)

Just as there are many young people on MAGA, there are also many young Koreans who are caught up in right-wing conspiracy theories. The fact that they are 'concerned' is not proof that China is actually exerting influence over Korean IT companies and society as a whole. There is a significant difference between making foreign investments and infiltration.

by danipark

6/19/2026 at 10:28:33 AM

> Just as there are many young people on MAGA, there are also many young Koreans who are caught up in right-wing conspiracy theories.

You're literally talking to one. Search for any thread remotely related to Korean companies or politics in the last month and you'll see this user in the comments spouting classic conspiracy theories. Of course never replying when called out, as on HN we luckily have people like you and me who bring the facts and the majority doesn't have time for that kind of nonsense unlike the Korean communities they get these conspiracies from. See also [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408364

by deaux

6/19/2026 at 8:55:51 PM

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by zuzululu

6/19/2026 at 4:03:05 PM

i'm glad you're enjoying the vibe at your office, but counting the number of Chinese devs sitting next to you in the cafeteria is compltely ireelevant and doesn't back up any of your claims.

you keep trying to shoehorn American MAGA culture war talking points into this, which is genuinely baffling if you actually work in Korean tech right now. i'll list the actual instances (many i have not covered here theres too much) look at the very companies you brought up, plus a few others, because the list of sensitive Chinese capital deployments and structural influence in Korea is plenty:

kakaotalk: You mentioned Kakao. Have you looked at Kakao Pay recently? Ant Group (Alipay) is their second-largest shareholder. Between 2018 and May 2024, Kakao Pay handed over 54.2 billion pieces of personal credit datato Alipay without proper user consent. The FSS just hit them with a massive fine in Feb 2026, and the police have literally launched a criminal probe over illegal data exfiltration,. That isn't a right-wing "conspiracy theory," you keep parroting to distract the average HN reader. They aren't gullible as Koreans with anti-American views. that is the systemic hand-off of a nation's financial data to a Chinese partner. your continued insistence seems to be that Chinese political/military/corporate interests are separate and held accountable. again and again that has proven to be false and they are of the same body. you will find numerous articles highlighting this massive industrial complex that China uses to infiltrate the world. to claim otherwise is suspicious because i've never seen a Korean defend China to the length you have gone. So let me ask again, are you Korean Korean or are you of Chinese descent identifying as Korean? Once again for hn users discovering this thread: Koreans are deeply suspicious of Chinese especially those that claim Korean identity due to their loyalty is in question (and its not hard to see why)

telecom/AI: Why do youthink the US government just intervened this week to block Mythos ? It's because of deep security concerns that a South Korean telecom company with suspected ties to China could serve as a backdoor for Beijing to access core AI tech, keep in mind, LG Uplus has famously refused to rip out its Huawei 5G gear despite years of US pressure. The US is actively restricting cutting edge AI exports to Korea specifically because of Chinese infrastructure risks.

Strategic supply chain Capture (ex. batts, EV): Chinese giants like Huayou Cobalt, CATL, and GEM are pouring billions of dollars into joint ventures with top Korean conglomerates (ex. LG Chem, POSCO, SK On) they are explicitly using South Korea as a laundering hub to bypass the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The US government is now heavily scrutinizing these JVs because Chinese capital effectively controls the precursor battery supply chains being built on Korean soil.

gaming/kpop/entertainment: Beyond Tencent's massive double-digit stakes in Karfton, netmarble, and Kakao, ccp capital has been heavily injected into Korean content studios, which historically led to massive domestic blowback over Chinese investors pushing historical revisionism into Korean media.

logistics & ecommerce: aeliExpress and temu aren't just selling cheap plastic\hey are aggressively buying up logistics infrastructure in Korea, capturing massive swaths of consumer data, and financially squeezing domestic platforms.

nobody is arguing that ccp operatives are infiltrating the middle man layer of baemin to sabotage food deliveries. The concern is that Chinese capital is structurally embedded into the highest levels of South Korea's fintech, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing sectors and America has every right to be concerned at reevaluating the alliance state of not only Korea but Israel or any other US ally that doesn't serve its national interests

yaoung koreans aren't MAGA, and insinuatio is the common talking points to counter anti-Chinese and promote anti-american ideology in korea. if you were really korean you would know intuititvely that they are reacting to the very documented reality that their personal data is being piped to alipay, their telecom infrastructure is triggering us export blocks, and their strategic industries are being utilized as proxy vehicles for chinese capital. domestically chinese pseculators have made real estate unaffordable and filling university dorm rooms meant for koreans while they weather the heat and humidity in tiny goshiwons. jobs have disappeared to china/chinese companies and young koreans have every right to be made at china and the politicians keep pushing chinese interests before its own citizens. korea isn't alone in this threat assessment. koerans have seen what happened to taiwan and hong kong and other countries.

trying to warp the situation on the ground to the average hn user by using irrelevant American culture wars as strawman onto this is intellectually lazy and ignrores the true majority view of young and old koreans.

again i find your words and motivations highly suspicious because ive never ever seen a korean defend china to the lengths you have which made me think you are probably not a real korean-korean.

by zuzululu

6/19/2026 at 11:50:59 PM

> So let me ask again, are you Korean Korean or are you of Chinese descent identifying as Korean?

> i find your words and motivations highly suspicious because ive never ever seen a korean defend china to the lengths you have which made me think you are probably not a real korean-korean.

Yes, I am a Korean who is absolutely fed up with this kind of racist rhetoric. I am not defending China. I simply dislike right-wing conspiracy theorists like you.

> Koreans are deeply suspicious of Chinese especially those that claim Korean identity due to their loyalty is in question (and its not hard to see why)

That simply means that you are surrounded by people just like yourself. In fact, it is highly likely because if you are part of the Korean cultural sphere in the U.S., you are highly likely to attend a Korean church, and that is where election conspiracy theorists go around holding lecture tours.

> nobody is arguing that ccp operatives are infiltrating the middle man layer of baemin to sabotage food deliveries.

Baemin is one of the most coveted IT companies in Korea (however actually German company bought them and still operates. Now is Germany infiltrating into Korean economy?). It certainly seems you lack knowledge of the Korean economy.

> domestically chinese pseculators have made real estate unaffordable and filling university dorm rooms meant for koreans while they weather the heat and humidity in tiny goshiwons.

Those Chinese people are the ones living in cheap flats on the upper floor of a lamb skewer shop in Daerim-dong. [0] Among the young Koreans I know, there is no one who is angry about not being able to buy a house in such a place. And blame the university authorities for not building enough dormitories. Are you saying that the mere fact that Chinese international students are coming is the problem?

You could talk endlessly about the impact China is having on the Korean capital market. This is because it has actually happened, and it continues to happen. China's economy is the second largest in the world, while Korea's is only one-tenth the size. Naturally, it is bound to have an impact. As I said, investing in the capital market and 'intertwined/injected into all facet of south korean society' are completely different things. Perhaps you just think that the very existence of Chinese people and Chinese culture is 'infiltration'. Just like the right-wingers in Japan who get angry about the Zainichi shadow government simply because Korean is written on subway station signs.

Anyway, you interrogated me by asking, "So, are you Chinese?" Looking at this, it seems that whatever I say would be meaningless, and it has been very clearly revealed to the sane HN users what kind of person you are.

[0]https://www.hankyung.com/article/202510077522i

by danipark

6/18/2026 at 8:42:57 PM

Many of us know coders and cybersecurity professionals who are even better than Claude Fable or Mythos. It's outstanding how much praise and careful consideration it gets. At the same time, humans with even more expertise are discarded and fired.

by kittikitti

6/18/2026 at 8:49:09 PM

Sure they exist but they're rare, difficult to identify and hire, and take years to train. Mythos/Fable is available on tap.

by trunnell

6/18/2026 at 9:55:12 PM

I can also use the models anytime, and for a lot of time, until i’m anywhere close to salary for an engineer like that

by claytonjy

6/18/2026 at 11:12:02 PM

sure. and when you do have that money then you magically become altruistic and decide to pay that salary even though it costs you more

by ShinyLeftPad

6/19/2026 at 2:52:15 PM

Capital over humans. This is the main significance of the "free market" people love so much in HN. And then, after defending this monstruosity, they get sad when the internet becomes this anti-human place, they get sad with layoffs, etc. Abstraction overtook reality.

by gverrilla

6/18/2026 at 8:58:46 PM

You seem to ignore the fact that this kind of praise and attention is not accidental. It’s a direct result of massive PR by Anthropic. AGI and skynet is their marketing. Dario is the supreme hyper on that. Make no mistake this is a trillion dollar company not your average startup so it has the money and potentially the power to influence policy (I.e ban competitors)

by theplumber

6/19/2026 at 4:03:21 AM

> Many of us know coders and cybersecurity professionals who are even better than Claude Fable or Mythos.

Like who ? I find your statement to be doubtfyl

by zuzululu

6/19/2026 at 11:38:35 AM

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by reliabilitygate

6/18/2026 at 12:50:24 PM

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by dstala

6/19/2026 at 12:13:50 AM

Over a decade ago, I was going to a tech group with a supposed security leader (that ended up getting a huge buyout from Cisco a few years ago).

A student wanted to create a project that bypassed the GF of China. He basically told him he was an idiot, it was impossible, and discouraged the student from even trying. This was a hacker (the security leader) at one point in his life, that claimed to support the freedom of speech and expression.

The actual reason he said this to the student is because he supports the government in China. Many other comments I heard after this proved to me that this is true. My guess is that his startup even received funding from the Chinese government.

It's really disappointing that tech leaders can publicly support murderous regimes like the Chinese government for decades with no blow back. They are far worse than Putin/the Russian government and have 100X the money and technology.

If he supported Russia, he would probably get cancelled and never be able to be involved in the tech industry again.

by jazz9k

6/19/2026 at 2:54:04 PM

USA is murderous in levels you can't even compare to China...

by gverrilla