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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Political Fight Over Anthropic's New AI / Trump Pulls Jay Clayton's Senate Confirmation

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The White House effectively bans the advanced Fable 5 model by placing it off limits to foreigners, even ones working at Anthropic. Plus, Donald Trump upends Jay Clayton's confirmation as director of national intelligence, while making new demands that Congress pass the SAVE America Act, a federal voting takeover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The Trump administration effectively

0:40.7

suspends an advanced AI model introduced by Anthropic, citing concerns about how bad actors might use it.

0:48.7

Meantime, President Trump orders his new nominee for Director of National Intelligence not to

0:53.3

show up to his own Senate confirmation

0:55.3

hearing. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues

1:01.4

on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member Colin Levy. Anthropics

1:09.1

Fable 5 AI model has been hailed as a significant advance

1:14.0

for applying artificial intelligence to complex problems, but on Friday it was pulled by the

1:19.3

company under pressure from the Trump administration. Here's what Anthropic wrote on X. The U.S.

1:25.5

government citing national security authorities has issued an export control

1:29.4

directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or

1:36.5

outside the United States, including foreign national anthropic employees. The net effect of this

1:42.6

order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and

1:45.6

Mythos 5 for all of our customers to ensure compliance. The company went on to say, Alicia,

1:51.5

that they expected that this was a misunderstanding and were working to resolve access as soon as

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