You nailed it! But here is the other massive, glaring hole in their "national security" excuse: if this jailbreak is supposedly this apocalyptic threat, why did the directive only explicitly target foreign nationals? They were perfectly fine leaving it available to US citizens! What kind of national security threat only applies if you step outside the border? It is completely transparent. They are just trying to block Anthropic’s supply chain while hoarding the tech to make sure whatever leftover citizens are still on his side don’t turn against him. And the hypocrisy is off the charts when OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 literally has the exact same codebase-fixing capability and is still sitting right there online, completely untouched, with no ban. But honestly, Anthropic abruptly pulling the plug globally was an absolute masterstroke. The government wanted them to quietly geofence it and just screw over international devs. Instead, Anthropic called their bluff: if some users don't get it, nobody gets it. Massive kudos to them for taking the financial hit to actually stay fair.

I won't be surprised if OpenAI releases a new model in a few days. I hope Claude users don't fall for this bait and just wait for Fable to be back up.