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Industry and academia call on administration to free Anthropic’s AI model

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ByAlexandra Kelley,
Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW

June 15, 2026 04:23 PM ET

Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls, citing international competition and patches to network vulnerabilities.

Signatories across industry, academia and expert groups issued a public letter Monday asking the Trump administration to roll back new restrictions imposed on Anthropic’s Fable 5 model.

Featured on a new “Free Fable” website, the letter — signed by representatives from companies like Adobe, NVIDIA and Zoom, along with academics from Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, Baltimore College — asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross to reverse the suspension of Anthropic’s latest model.

The White House’s Friday decisionto suspend access to Fable 5, which is a consumer-safe variation of Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused...

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Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs

AI AND ML A close-up thumb in front of a digital fingerprint recognition overlay.Thapana_Studio / Shutterstock How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin Claude wants to know if you are who you say you are. Anthropic last week updated its privacy policy to say that

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