Illinois Mandates Third-Party Audits of Frontier Labs and Trump Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Fable

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

• ⁠⁠AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315)

• 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 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models" (Bloomberg)

• "OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake" (Financial Times)

Commerce lifts export controls on AnthropicAnthropic accuses Alibaba of adversarial distillationOpenAI proposes government take 5% stake