The test. The reading is withdrawn if an open copy of the June directive shows that it cites a published authority that expressly provides for a worldwide license requirement. If no open copy is published by that day, the limb is unscored.
a mixed or partial reading Cannot yet be scored. Neither the government nor Anthropic has published the letter, as far as a search of the record could find; an unofficial transcription open since 16 June 2026 names three authorities, none of which expressly provides for a worldwide license requirement. Bloomberg’s printing of the same text, behind its subscription wall, is neither an open copy nor the letter itself.
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What it names
- Party Anthropic
Filings that bear on it
- Legion LegalTech, Corp. v. United States, D.D.C. No. 1:26-cv-02225-RJL, complaint, ECF 1, filed 23 June 2026, and the notice of dismissal, ECF 7, filed 3 July 2026
Legion LegalTech sued on 23 June 2026 over Commerce’s directive of 12 June placing export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and dropped the suit on 3 July after Commerce rescinded it on 30 June.
- Sam Liccardo and three other members of the House of Representatives, letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on the frontier-model export controls, signed with Jay Obernolte, Scott Franklin and Ted Lieu, 18 June 2026
Four House members told Commerce on 18 June 2026 they understood its 12 June action on the Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models imposed a worldwide license requirement, and asked it to identify every authority it relied on.
- 50 U.S.C. § 4817(b)(1), 50 U.S.C. § 4813(a)(15) and 15 C.F.R. § 744.22(b), the three authorities the transcription of the June directive names, read in the Legal Information Institute’s text of the US Code and the eCFR on 8 October 2026
Sections 4813(a)(15) and 4817(b)(1) of Title 50 let Commerce require a license by informing a person that one is required, and export rule 744.22(b) covers military-intelligence end uses in China, Russia and other listed countries.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Chapter 8, the nineteen days.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-23 (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-chapter-8-the-nineteen-days-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Chapter 8, the nineteen days}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}