Quick follow-up to my Fable shutdown post 👇 The news: Anthropic's Managing Director of International, Chris Ciauri, said at a press conference in Seoul they're "very confident that in the coming days, the models will become available again." Real Anthropic exec, on the record — not a leak. After the US government pulled the most powerful public AI four days post-launch, it's signaling a comeback. The context that makes it credible: Anthropic sent engineers to Washington for talks with Commerce, Dario was at the G7 with Trump pushing AI coordination, and prediction markets put ~58% odds Fable returns before July 1. My take: "Coming days" is doing a lot of work — could be tomorrow, could be two weeks. I read it as "the deal is close," not "set your alarm." The bigger question isn't when — it's what comes back. It got pulled over a cybersecurity jailbreak, so the realistic path isn't "flip it back on." It's "restored with conditions" — extra safeguards, a vetting layer, or narrower access. Possibly a more locked-down model than the one that shipped. For builders and operators: This is my whole thesis playing out live. Model access is now political — a frontier model's availability can hinge on a meeting in Washington. Which is exactly why you build model-agnostic. The devs who got burned wired production straight to Fable on day one. The ones who were fine switched to Opus 4.8 and kept moving. Be the second kind. Fact — Ciauri said "coming days," on the record.Open — the date, and what condition it comes back in. "Too dangerous to release" → "released anyway" → "government pulled it" may be about to hit "it's back, but different." I'll bring you the confirmation when it's real. If Fable 5 comes back more locked-down than launch — does that change whether you'd build on it? 👇