Claude Fable 5 lasted three days. Then the US government pulled it. (opens in new tab)

On Tuesday this week I was reading launch coverage that told me to try Claude Fable 5 soon. By Friday night it was gone. Not deprecated, not rate-limited, not behind a waitlist. Gone, by order of the US government. If you had Fable 5 wired into anything this week, you have already seen the error: the selected model may not exist, or you may not have access to it. That message is doing a lot of quiet work. A frontier model that Anthropic describes as deployed to hundreds of millions of people ...