Anthropic filed for an IPO, its first sale of shares to the public, on October 26
Anthropic launched Fable 5 on June 9, pulled it offline for 18 days under U.S. export controls, which are government limits on who may use a technology, and released Fable 5.1 on September 1. The chatter began on October 1, when users posted screenshots of Claude still labeled Fable 5.1 beside outputs they said looked…