anthropic just brought back claude fable 5 globally after the us government export block. but read the fine print they bolted on new cybersecurity classifiers so aggressive that routine coding and debugging now gets kicked down to the weaker opus 4.8. think about that, their flagship frontier model and they’re rerouting normal dev work to an older one because the safety net can’t tell a coder from an attacker. this is what happens when government pressure meets ai: the capability exists but you’re not allowed to use it at full power. you paid for fable, you get opus on the hard stuff. the model didn’t get worse but the leash got shorter