Source: the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5; limits could be lifted as soon as this coming week
THE SO WHAT
A 15‑day outage for a flagship model on policy grounds is a live-fire test of concentration risk in AI stacks. If Fable 5 comes back next week, the lesson isn’t relief—it’s to build multi‑model routing and clear fallbacks before the next regulatory shock.
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