Fable 5 suspended 11 days. Anthropic's updated privacy policy (effective July 8) adds "Verification Data": government ID images, facial photos/videos, "facial geometry templates" (biometric). Analysts: once US citizenship is verifiable, Anthropic can restore Fable 5 for domestic users only — no need to wait for full government agreement. NSA Director Rudd disclosed Mythos autonomously breached "almost all" NSA classified systems in hours during a red-team exercise — the trigger was autonomous offensive capability, not jailbreaking. Judgment: frontier AI access is moving from "paywall" to "passport wall" (nationality-based tiering, first time ever); once built, this infrastructure won't be dismantled; "model switchability" moves from best practice to survival requirement for the application layer.