Politico reconstructs the 19-day standoff that pulled Fable off the market.

Politico's account has the government testing Fable and Treasury approving release, then Amazon finding a jailbreak two days after launch, after which officials ordered Dario Amodei to fix it or take the model down. Amodei refused, the administration issued an export control, and the order lifted June 30 with Fable returning worldwide July 1. The resolution is the part builders should note: both sides ended up building a shared framework for grading jailbreak severity, with the administration conceding no model can be made completely jailbreak-proof. Severity grading beats binary pass/fail for the same reason the eval story above does.