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Illinois Mandates Third-Party Audits of Frontier Labs and Trump Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Fable
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In this episode, we discuss the AI Safety Measures Act, or SB 315, Illinois' new frontier AI bill that mandates third-party audits for frontier AI labs (:51). We also cover the Trump administration's decision to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models (7:34), Anthropic's claim that Alibaba extracted capabilities from Claude in a large-scale distillation attack (17:46), and OpenAI's proposal for the government to take a 5% stake in the company (26:12).
Additional reading:
IL mandates third-party audits of frontier labs
Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic
- Lutnick's June 30 letter
- Anthropic's blog post "Redeploying Fable 5"
- OpenAI's blog post "Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol"
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of adversarial distillation
OpenAI proposes government take 5% stake
- "OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake" (Financial Times)
