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by Every Staffin On June 12, Anthropic disabled Fable 5—the most capable coding model Every had worked with—after a U.S. government ban forced the company to shut it off for everyone. There was no warning or migration window. The models we rely on, it turns out, aren’t ours to keep: A company—or a government—can switch one off overnight. That instability is the backdrop to our week. Senior applied AI engineer Nityesh Agarwal spent weeks building around Claude’s limitations, only to watch Anth...