Fable disappeared overnight. That's the best ad for open-weight AI anyone could have run. (opens in new tab)

Fable 5 launched. Developers loved it. Three days later, a US government export-control directive forced Anthropic to pull it worldwide — including from its own staff. Enterprises that had built automations on it lost their engine in an afternoon. Nobody who'd built on Fable had a say. That's the lesson, and it's bigger than Fable: access is not ownership. "Any enterprise that had built automation on Fable 5 lost its engine in an afternoon." — Janakiram MSV, The New Stack What actually happen...