Looking back at the 19 days when Fable 5 was launched, it was really more exciting than a TV series. On June 9th, Fable 5 was officially launched. Before going online, the US government conducted its own testing and the Treasury Department also approved it. Just two days later, Amazon discovered a jailbreak method during stress testing, and the White House called Anthropic directly: turn off Fable. Dario Amodei's first reaction was not to agree, but to try to explain: Dario: All cutting-edge models will be jailbroken, perfect protection simply doesn't exist. We anticipated this issue before going live, but it does not mean that Fable's security mechanism as a whole has failed. Finance Minister Bessent interrupted him directly: No need, Dario。 Dario explained again that this time it's not the kind of "universal jailbreak" that can penetrate the entire security system. If the model is taken down just because of one jailbreak, then AI with capabilities beyond a certain line will basically be unable to be commercially released in the future. Bessent responded even more fiercely: You keep telling us that these performances are within expectations, which doesn't help you in any way. Then White House National Cyber Director Cairncross directly concluded the technical discussion: The United States cannot currently bear this risk, and Fable must stop visiting. Continuing to ask Dario: Does Anthopic really turn off Fable? Dario still hasn't agreed. He said he only found out about this for an hour, and the engineers haven't even figured out what happened yet. It's impossible to shut down a product that is used by users all over the world right now. Cairncross: I have received the answer. Bessent added, 'This is a wrong decision.'. The situation completely exploded here. Politico revealed that the White House subsequently began studying how to enforce Anthropic, even discussing the Defense Production Act, the company's board of directors, and ultimately the truly effective weapon: export controls. According to insiders, Trump was already very impatient at the time and even said, "I want to send them to jail Next, Lutnick, the Minister of Commerce, will appear. Interestingly, he first praised Anthropic as a national treasure of the United States and said that the country needs a trillion dollar AI company. The White House officials who were listening on the phone next to him were all confused and sent him a message privately: You're not going to praise him, you're going to give him strength. After an hour of discussion, Dario still didn't close. At 17:21 on the same day, the US Department of Commerce officially issued export controls: no foreign citizen is allowed to visit Fable and Mythos, not even in the United States, and even Anthropic's own foreign employees are not allowed. Three hours later, Dario called Lutnick again: If our overseas programmers cannot use it, does that mean we have to download the model? Lutnick: Yes, that's the purpose. There's absolutely nothing to talk about now. Anthropic launched Fable globally that evening. Even more dramatically, Anthropic subsequently engaged in direct personnel negotiations. Co founder Tom Brown took over and talked to the White House about it being close to midnight that night, continuing the conversation the next day. Within 24 hours, Anthropic sent the Red Team and engineers directly to Washington, D.C., to modify the security classifier on site and coordinate with the Ministry of Commerce, National Cyber Director NSA、 The Pentagon and government AI security departments will conduct individual inspections. Finally, the Pentagon also nodded. Export restrictions were lifted on June 30th, and Fable resumed online on July 1st. It disappeared for a full 19 days. The most interesting thing about this period of history now is that both sides actually discovered something that no one had really encountered before: An AI company has become so strong that the White House must personally discuss with the CEO whether the model should be launched or not. But the White House has also proven for the first time that if it really wants a model to disappear from the world, pressing the export control button won't even allow the model company's own engineers to use it. The 19 days since Fable 5 was launched may have been a watershed for AI to officially transform from a technology product into a national strategic asset.