Start Up No.2685: Amazon caused Anthropic Fable ban, the deepfake expert, the GLP-1 scammers, solar beats US coal, and more

As you get older, do you start to slow down.. on the road? If so, why? CC-licensed photo by Brian Suda on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 10 links for you. Stay in your lane. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban • The Verge Terrence O’Brien: » According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series of prompts, it was able to get Fable 5 to serve up information that could be used in…