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Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?
15 June 2026

Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?

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Chris McGuire, former civil servant in State and the Biden White House now at CFR, talk about the export control craziness of these past two weeks.

We discuss:


The 5:21 PM letter that took the world's most powerful model offline

Why the "let it rip" administration pivoted to mandatory AI regulation overnight

The incoherent export-control regime: regs that still say one thing while policy says another

The overseas-subsidiary loophole, the Sunday emergency fix, and the foundry gap still left open


outtro music: https://suno.com/s/UVeDiboPyj0jvIgO
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