Anthropic's Fable 5 led every major AI benchmark over OpenAI's GPT 5.5 before a US export control directive forced it offline three days after launch.

Anthropic's Fable AI was shut down following a U.S. government directive limiting access to U.S. nationals, exposing growing tensions between AI safety and regulation.

In an interview hours before the U.S. government issued a directive to disable Anthropic’s newest AI model, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer told Forbes about the tradeoffs…