--- title: "Chapter 8, the nineteen days, due 31 December 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH" source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-23 description: "Chapter 8, the nineteen days: due 31 December 2027." --- # Chapter 8, the nineteen days Due 31 December 2027 **The test.** The reading is withdrawn if an open copy of the June directive shows that it cites a published authority that expressly provides for a worldwide license requirement.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. From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy) **Falls due:** 31 December 2027 **Read on:** An open copy of the directive **Chapter:** [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)The state as customer: how the Pentagon buys frontier AI, the contract clauses a laboratory fought over, and what the courts said about a company that would not sign. ## What it names - Party [Anthropic](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/legion-complaint-jun26)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of 12 June placing export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and dropped the suit on 3 July after Commerce rescinded it on 30 June.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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/liccardo-lutnick-jun26)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/usc-ecra-cfr-744-22)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. [Add this test to your calendar](webcal://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/tests.ics?test=2027-23) · Download this test: [CSV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/test-2027-23.csv) · [JSON](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/test-2027-23.json) - [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger) - [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard) - [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases) - [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion) - [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory) - [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine) - [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion) - [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary) - [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people) - [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources) - [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes) - [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections) - [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1) - [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent) - [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties) *The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026. [About the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1)[Tell me when it is out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#notify)