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

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Podcast: [The AI Policy Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-policy-podcast-6758160)
Published: 2026-07-09T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

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

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