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The Fable 5 story did not end when Anthropic pulled the model.

That was only the first shock.

The bigger story is what the shutdown told the rest of the world.

A frontier AI model can be released by a private US company.

It can be used by customers, partners, researchers, and international teams.

Then Washington can decide that access is too sensitive.

Suddenly, the model is gone.

That changes how countries think about AI.

It changes how companies think about dependence.

It changes how allies think about trust.

If the strongest AI systems can disappear by government order, then access to American AI became a question of sovereignty.