Claude Fable 5 Went from Free to Offline in 72 Hours — What I Learned About AI Coding Costs

The Paradox of Power: Why Anthropic Released and Then Restricted Claude Fable 5

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on June 9, but US government shut it down within 72 hours: the model autonomously discovered 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities. For CTO decision-making: frontier AI at maximum capability creates unmanageable dual-use risk, forcing trade-offs between commercialization and safety that only government restrictions can resolve.