The clearest rationale yet for the Fable 5 / Mythos export ban: the capability is the concern, not a patchable exploit.

As of June 21, Tech Policy Press surfaces The Economist's reporting that the models' autonomous offensive-cybersecurity capability is itself the national-security issue, not a user-side exploit you can fix. That reframes the dispute from "why banned" to a structural capability problem, which is a much harder thing to negotiate away. Anthropic's International MD Chris Ciauri said the models should return "in the coming days," and prediction markets give 57% odds of restoration before July 1, 75% by July 17.