The Commerce Department lifted controls on July 1 after the model spent nearly three weeks offline for export review.
The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 on July 1, after nearly three weeks in which the model was offline pending review.
A frontier model switched off and back on by trade policy is a preview of a new regime: models treated less like software and more like controlled exports.
Model availability is becoming a trade instrument. Export policy toggling a frontier model on and off looks a lot like the semiconductor playbook — build vendor and geography redundancy before you are forced to.
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