White House Tells Anthropic to Wipe Out Every Jailbreak Before Claude Fable 5 Can Return, but Experts Say That May Be Impossible The Trump administration says it will not allow Claude Fable 5 back online until Anthropic proves it has closed the jailbreak holes the NSA identified, even as security experts warn that fully blocking jailbreaks may not be achievable. The Trump administration has set a steep condition before it will let Claude Fable 5 return to the market: Anthropic must demonstrate that it has genuinely closed the security holes the government claims to have found. Officials told TrendKia that the AI model, which was pulled offline last week through export controls because of jailbreaking worries, will only be cleared for rerelease once the company moves to fix what regulators describe as real vulnerabilities. Jailbreaking refers to crafting prompts that push a model into ignoring its own safeguards. For several days now, Anthropic has pushed back, arguing that the administration is overstating the danger and that the jailbreaks have only a minor practical effect. The company repeated that argument to the Commerce Department and to Sean Cairncross, who leads the Office of the National Cyber Director, during a technical session held on Monday. Officials, however, say the debate over whether the jailbreaks matter is effectively finished. The National Security Agency determined that the guardrails on Fable 5 can be switched off. Those guardrails exist to stop users from unlocking capabilities of the underlying Mythos model tied to cybersecurity, chemistry, and biology. Why Washington Says This Is Anthropic's Job According to three people familiar with the talks, the administration now treats the matter as something Anthropic alone must resolve. Part of the reasoning is about resources. Officials said that neither the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation nor the NSA has the personnel or the bandwidth to chase down every conceivable jailbreak on every model that reaches the market. Because of that, the government wants Anthropic to take the lead, continuously testing not just Fable 5 but its entire lineup of frontier models for weaknesses, and then flagging any jailbreaks it discovers to officials on its own. Can Jailbreaking Even Be Stopped? The harder question is whether Anthropic can actually deliver what is being asked. A growing number of independent cybersecurity specialists argue that guardrails on AI systems are at best a stopgap, because capable users and more advanced models down the line will keep finding routes around the limits. By that logic, the outcome the White House appears to want may simply not be possible. A White House spokesperson declined to comment. The Intelligence Chief Job That Keeps Slipping Away At the start of the week, Bill Pulte, Trump's choice for Acting Director of National Intelligence, looked likely to never set foot in the role. By midweek the picture had flipped. Trump handed Pulte a lifeline, and it is now Jay Clayton, the nominee for the permanent DNI post, who risks being shut out entirely. Here is how it unfolded. Trump first tapped Pulte, his housing finance chief, to take over from the departing DNI, Tulsi Gabbard. That choice drew criticism from both parties, partly because Pulte lacks the national security background the law requires for the position, and partly because he had publicized questionable mortgage fraud allegations aimed at Trump's political opponents. In response, Trump put forward Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, as his pick for the permanent job. Gabbard was due to leave on June 18, with Pulte set to begin on June 19. Senate Republicans, though, floated a different timeline: if Clayton's hearing could be moved up to June 17 and he could start by June 22, would Pulte ever actually take the chair? On Wednesday, Trump scrapped the arrangement. Amid a broader clash with Senate Republican leaders over the filibuster, he declared that Clayton's hearing would be put off indefinitely, seemingly to keep Pulte from being leapfrogged. Senate Republicans then countered that the hearing would go ahead regardless, unless Clayton failed to show up or his nomination was pulled. The turmoil could land hard on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, an agency Trump has ordered Pulte to shrink dramatically. People familiar with the matter said staff have been underwhelmed by Pulte, pointing to what they see as little effort on his part to learn the agency and a shortage of regular briefings. Internally, some have grumbled that Pulte seemed keen on the trappings of the DNI role, the security detail and the frequent flights on government aircraft, while showing less appetite for the unglamorous duties of writing measured intelligence assessments and corralling the country's spy agencies. A White House spokesperson declined to comment, pointing TrendKia to Trump's post on Truth Social. A Fight Night Full of Power Players TrendKia reported last week that White House aides were anticipating a stream of donors and corporate bosses at UFC Freedom 250 over the weekend, all hoping for face time with Trump and his senior officials. They turned up as expected, both at the event itself and at several parties on the margins. One of the standout guests was Paramount CEO David Ellison, who had secured clearance from the Justice Department's antitrust division last week to acquire Warner Bros Discovery. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was there too, and was seen at one point talking with Trump. Earlier in the weekend, Meta threw a private gathering at the Ned's Club, which looks out over the White House. The guest list included several Trump officials: acting attorney general Todd Blanche, White House deputy chief of staff James Blair, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and interior secretary Doug Burgum. Members of the Trump family were also present, among them Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Kai Trump. They mixed with a crowd that featured former Clinton strategist Adrienne Elrod, Axios cofounders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, Fox News host Shannon Bream, Washington AI network founder Tammy Haddad, and former Trump strategist Kellyanne Conway. What this means for you What this means for you: • If you use or build on Claude: Fable 5 stays offline until this fight is resolved, so access to the model remains uncertain for now. • For anyone watching AI safety: The standoff shows that the safety filters meant to block dangerous cyber, chemistry, and biology uses can be switched off, and may never be fully bulletproof. Questions & Answers 1. Why was Claude Fable 5 taken offline? It was pulled last week through export controls because of concerns about jailbreaking. 2. What does the White House now want Anthropic to do? It wants the company to continuously test not just Fable 5 but all of its frontier models for weaknesses and report any jailbreaks to the government itself. 3. What did the NSA conclude? That the guardrails on Fable 5, which block access to the Mythos model's cybersecurity, chemistry, and biology capabilities, can be switched off. 4. Why do experts doubt jailbreaking can be stopped? They argue guardrails are only a stopgap, since skilled users and future, more advanced models will keep finding ways around the limits. https://trendkia.com/en/ai/claude-fable-5-ki-vapasi-se-pahale-hara-jailbreak-bnda-kare-anthropic-white-hous-1547 TrendKia — Har trend, sabse pehle.