Anthropic Unlocks Fable 5, Sony Kills Game Discs, and Meta Eyes Cloud

Anthropic's most powerful model, Fable 5, is back online after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls that had been imposed following a jailbreak discovered by Amazon researchers. But the return comes with strings attached: identity verification requirements, usage caps, and a new safety classifier that blocks the specific jailbreak technique in over 99% of cases. Meanwhile, Sony announced it will stop selling physical PlayStation games by January 2028, a consortium of 140 companies unveiled plans for a shared stablecoin called OpenUSD, and Meta is quietly building plans for a cloud infrastructure business to sell AI computing power to outside customers.

Fable 5 Returns — With Guardrails

Anthropic confirmed that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Methos 5, restoring access to the two most powerful models. Fable 5 began rolling back to users on Wednesday, while Methos 5 will remain exclusive to select companies. The export controls had been triggered by a jailbreak technique flagged by Amazon researchers, which Anthropic says it has now addressed with an improved safety classifier that targets and blocks that specific behavior. If a request to Fable 5 is blocked, users will be notified and the request will instead be sent to Opus 4.8.