The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist(conic.al)
365 points by rdl | 175 comments
Blog post by Sean Byrne about a namesake listed on the US BIS Entity List, an export-control entry tied to an address in County Sligo, Ireland.
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7 stories tagged export-controls, newest first.
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5(twitter.com)
889 points by Pragmata | 599 comments
Anthropic post on X announcing the Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, with access restoring the next day.
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks(reuters.com)
511 points by giuliomagnifico | 563 comments
Reuters article on the US holding off on blacklisting China's DeepSeek and over 100 other firms deemed security risks; the capture shows a captcha verification page.
Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5(anthropic.com)
3025 points by Dylan1312 | 2185 comments
Anthropic announcement that a US government export control directive forces it to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers.
Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot(forbes.com)
325 points by pera | 133 comments
Forbes news article reporting Super Micro Computer's stock plunged 25% after its co-founder was charged in a $2.5 billion AI chip smuggling scheme.
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips(japantimes.co.jp)
442 points by artninja1988 | 544 comments
Japan Times article on how China organized a large state-backed effort, likened to a Manhattan Project, to develop AI chips rivaling Western technology.
NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (1997)(cypherspace.org)
330 points by hosteur | 141 comments
Adam Back's page describing how he reverse-engineered Lotus Notes to extract the NSA key-escrow public key, named "MiniTruth"/"Big Brother", used in export versions.