alt Hacker NewsJust to put things in the right perspective to those who are not aware, Amazon heavily invests in Anthropic [0] and AWS is a partner on project Glasswing (Select companies that used Mythos to find critical vulnerabilities in major open source and critical infrastructure) [1]
So I don't think there is anything sinister here, I would use Hanlon's razor [2] here...
[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/building-ai-defenses-a...
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So you're saying this is being done to benefit Anthropic, giving them that regulatory moat they've been so desperately asking for... This could give them that slowdown in model training that they need to be profitable.
The commentary sounds like AWS really pushed this.
If you're bringing this sort of stuff to the government, it's because you want the government to act...
Or in my favourite formulation: “Never assume conspiracy where mere incompetence will do”.
To give you further perspective, Amazon has a $50B stake in OpenAI and a $5B stake in Anthropic.
If things were flipped, I highly doubt Amazon would be running straight to the feds.