White House Hammer Triggers Internal Earthquake, Anthropic Employees Worry IPO Will Be Sabotaged, Cry Bullying

According to Dynasty Beating monitoring, the White House's emergency ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models has caused a significant upheaval within Anthropic. Internal chat records revealed by The New York Times show a sense of panic within Anthropic, with the private chats of 3,000 employees exploding and the management at a loss after receiving a last-minute takedown order from the White House with only 90 minutes to comply. Employees are deeply concerned that the sudden technology ban could completely derail the company's planned IPO scheduled for later this year.

In leaked employee chats, there is extreme confusion among employees about the White House's back-and-forth stance between "national security" and "security vulnerabilities" in the takedown directive. Some engineers, in a tone of helplessness, jokingly asked if they were being "bullied by the White House on a hunch." Another employee pessimistically stated that the government's regulatory crackdown raises doubts about whether the White House actually "wants Anthropic to continue to exist" at all.

Employees' anxiety stems from the unique political pressure the company has long faced in Washington. Earlier this year, Anthropic clashed with the Pentagon after refusing to allow AI to directly participate in military operations. The Secretary of Defense subsequently designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," making Anthropic the first U.S. domestic company in history to be labeled a national security risk. Now, as the models are forced to be taken down at a crucial IPO juncture, internal concerns about political persecution are once again heightened.