From Ryan Doser Well, that aged fast. On Saturday I sent you my honest review of Claude Fable 5. A few days later, the US government stepped in and Anthropic pulled it offline. Same story for Mythos 5. Read My Original Fable 5 Breakdown Here's what actually went down, because the headlines are messier than "banned": - It started as a foreign-national order, not a full ban. The Commerce Department told Anthropic to cut off all foreign nationals, including its own non-citizen employees. To comply, Anthropic had to shut Fable 5 and Mythos 5 down for everyone. - The stated reason was narrow. The government flagged one method to get around Fable's safeguards using code review. Anthropic argues it's a single edge case, that GPT-5.5 can do the same thing, and that no model is perfectly jailbreak-proof. - Follow the incentives. Amazon's CEO warned the White House that Fable could aid cyberattacks. Amazon is both an Anthropic investor and a competitor, and this is happening right before Anthropic's IPO. Read into that what you want. Anthropic says it's working to restore access, with no timeline yet. Other Claude models are untouched. You can read Anthropic's official statement for more details. So What Should You Do Now? This is the only question that matters to us. And honestly? Don't panic, and don't change much. Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 are still incredibly powerful models and cover 99% of real knowledge work. Marketing, copywriting, research, strategy, etc. Fable was overkill for most of that anyway, which is exactly what I told you the other day. But here's what has me thinking. This is a slippery slope. How does a government decide a model is "too powerful"? How much of that call is real safety versus competitors lobbying behind the scenes?