We still don't actually know what caused the government panic over Fable/Anthropic in the first place — whether Amazon really called the government, why, and whether there was some strange intrigue involved.

8:32at least, you know, waking up and starting to take this stuff more seriously. Um, you know, a lot of open questions still about this, including like generally what the hell happened, right? I mean, we're still kind of piecing it all together through reporting and hearsay and, you know, what exactly was it that caused this in the first place? Was it really Amazon that called the government in a panic?

8:58If so, like why? And you know, were they confused about what was going on? That would be weird. Were they, you know, is there some sort of weird intrigue between Amazon and Anthropic? Amazon has a big share of Anthropic. And as big as Amazon is, that share of Anthropic is starting to become pretty material to their overall market cap, too. So, you know, it would be strange for this to be

9:26uh some sort of sabotage, but there's not really a, you know, I I have a hard time telling a story that doesn't leave me with weird open-ended questions around what was seen, why was it reported in this way, how did we end up in this sort of panic situation, and then how was it fixed? You know, the best information I've seen suggests that the way that they mostly reassured the

9:52government was to painstakingly point out that the things that were observed had already been capabilities that were in the wild with other models for some time. And again, that's a sort of strange way to get back into the, you know, the approved column is to say, look, everybody, it's kind of like, you know, something my kid would try, right? like he was doing it too. It's a sort of a

10:18strange way to uh try to get out of the frontier model penalty box. Uh so yeah, I mean if you fill in all the gaps in a charitable way, you can tell a Jud uh resin type story where this is, you know, kind of a clumsy perhaps but ultimately enlightened uh step to take for the government. or if you fill in those gaps in an uncharitable way, you're just kind