Fable 5 restoration talks advance as Trump drops Anthropic national security label

Anthropic's technical staff have met with Commerce Department officials daily since Friday's global model shutdown, as Secretary Lutnick invoked — for the first time — the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 against an AI model. Trump's G7 reversal and prediction markets pricing 57% odds on access before July 1 signal a deal is close. The open question is whether Commerce has legal authority at all: export-control experts note that AI models delivered via remote access are not 'exported' under current regulations, and the distinction is untested.

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