Rent the Intelligence, Own the Memory On Friday, a single government letter pulled a frontier AI model off the internet for everyone. The Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — the reported concern being that its guardrails could be jailbroken. To comply, Anthropic disabled it for all customers, not just foreign nationals. One letter at 5:21pm on a Friday, and every developer and team building on Fable 5 woke up to nothing. No deprecation notice. N