5 Ways Claude Tag Could Change How You Use AI

**Nathaniel Whittemore** (0:00)
Today on the AI Daily Brief, why Claude Tag and approaches like it might change how you use AI?
Before that, in the headlines, an Anthropic customer has sued the US over losing Fable, but can it possibly help?
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Well here we are, heading towards the back half of this week, with a return of Fable 5 no closer insight. In fact, the rumor mill suggests that we are not in line for pretty much any models for some time. Later this week, I'm going to do a show about what you can do to make the most of this forced AI model pause. But for now, let's look at some of the conversations that are actually shaping the discourse. Now, first up, I flagged this before, but I want to take this chance to flag it again. Right now, emotions are running at an 11 when it comes to this Anthropic news. I saw a post called Viral on X about the significance of this bipartisan letter asking Howard Lutnick if Anthropic had been singled out. But friends, this is at this point about a week old, and these open congressional letters don't actually do anything, they don't usually get responses. This is, in a word, a nothing burger. One thing that also probably amounts to nothing but is at least a little bit more interesting is that one Anthropic customer is taking it upon themselves to get the model reinstated by suing the government. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a legal tech firm called Legion claimed the ban was illegal and damaging their business. The harm to Legion is immediate, irreparable and existential, the lawsuit stated. The pace of frontier AI advancement is blistering and competitive ground lost during a suspension cannot be regained after the fact. Certainly, regardless of the ultimate success of this lawsuit, I think that is a sentiment that many of you listening now will agree with. The filing claim that export control laws do not cover shutting down access to cloud software, a point that many other legal commentators made as soon as the ban was announced. Serving computer code or text outputs from a computer isn't typically seen as an export that can be proper subject of export controls. In the alternative, if the ban relied on IEEPA powers similar to sanctions, the lawsuit notes that these powers do not apply to information and no prerequisite national security emergency was declared. Further, the lawsuit argues the move was overbroad and possibly retaliatory towards Anthropic. It also notes the decision to block distribution of a model directly contradicts the executive order signed at the beginning of June, which ruled out the idea of a model licensing scheme. In making their argument, Legion centers the facts on their Canadian development team losing access to the model, pointing out that targeting allied nations with export controls is highly unusual. Anthropic, for their part, remains silent on the matter, and there is certainly no indication this lawsuit is being filed on their behalf by a third party. In comments to the press, they referred to previous statements indicating they're grateful to the administration for working quickly to resolve the issue. Now, in terms of the potential success of this, at this point, most legal analysts that I've seen seem to think that the administration has gone outside the bounds of the law on this one, but also that it's unlikely to be a clear-cut decision for a judge. Frankly, none of that is going to actually matter because as long as Anthropic is taking it seriously, which they clearly are, presumably and oh my gosh, hopefully, it'll be resolved through negotiation before any legal process could actually make it through the courts. Now, the administration's friskiness when it comes to controlling the flow of AI is doing nothing but increasing. The most recent news is that the administration is now pressuring Meta to agree to voluntary model review. Sources told the New York Times that the White House is pressing Meta to submit their AI models for safety and performance testing prior to release. Meta is currently the lone holdout among major AI labs after Microsoft, XAI and Google signed agreements shortly before the recent executive order on AI and cybersecurity. Now, reportedly the administration's requests seem to only relate to testing at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the Commerce Department, not whatever additional security testing has been going on at the NSA. And Meta does seem to be leaning towards an agreement with a spokesperson commenting, We share the administration's goal of advancing US leadership on robust and secure frontier AI. While we are working through the details, we hope to sign the agreement soon. Still, the whole idea of pressuring a company to submit their technology for government testing really highlights just how air quotes voluntary the program actually is.