Anthropic employees say they feel singled out by the Trump administration after it ordered the company to pull its two most powerful AI models and left them with few answers, according to a New York Times report. Internal chats lit up with confusion over shifting explanations for the shutdown, from foreign-access worries to a discovered vulnerability, as workers asked whether the move would hurt the company's planned IPO. The Times reports the order was helped along by a vulnerability paper from Amazon, one of Anthropic's biggest investors, though experts noted it never tested rival models like OpenAI's that can do the same. More than 150 cybersecurity experts signed a letter urging officials to lift the curbs, and some employees asked whether the administration simply doesn't want the company to exist.
