I would speculate that they were concerned, as many people familiar with frontier AI models are, that they are dangerous and could be misused to do bad things.

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SubiculumCode 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Everyone assumes that it is business motivated. Perhaps, but perhaps that business motivation is the fact that this group at Amazon had reportedly many past interaction with the Administration about AI safety, and this being just the latest interaction.

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sumeno 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah... because Amazon is famous for caring about safety over profits...

	▲	SpicyLemonZest 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If Amazon's stake in Anthropic goes up 10x, but American national security is fatally compromised in the process, I kinda doubt that's net profitable for Amazon. They're not going to be able to deliver in 2 days or hit AWS sales targets if everyone's drowning in cyberattacks.