
Fable 5 Needs Retention On. ZDR Was Never Zero.
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are Covered Models: they refuse to run in a zero-data-retention workspace on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic's own docs also say flagged prompts can be held up to two years even under ZDR — while OpenAI previews the opposite bet.
August 20, 2026 · 13 min read