150: The Government Said “No Fable For You”

Anthropic's new Fable model gets pulled days after launch when the US government restricts foreign access, a fully open-source Chinese model claims Claude Opus-level benchmarks for a fraction of the price, and MDN ships an MCP server to keep AI agents current on the web platform. Plus npm 12's supply-chain crackdown and SpaceX's eye-popping $60B Cursor buy. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - Anthropic released Fable and the US government shut it down 13:51 - GLM-5.2 20:16 - MDN MCP Server 25:42 - npm 12's breaking changes 31:38 - SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B 39:13 - What's Making Us Happy NEWS Paige - MDN MCP Server: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/b... Jack - GLM-5.2: https://z.ai/ TJ - Anthropic released Fable and the US shut it down days later: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-... LIGHTNING NEWS SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B: https://www.fastcompany.com/91560594/... npm 12 breaking changes: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06... WHAT'S MAKING US HAPPY Paige - Newest season of Clarkson's Farm: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/ Paige - World Cup international fans: https://abcnews.com/GMA/Living/world-... Jack - Portland Pickles: https://www.portlandpicklesbaseball.com/ TJ - Claude Cowork: https://www.anthropic.com/product/cla... Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website: https://front-end-fire.com Blue Collar Coder on YouTube:    / @jherr   Blue Collar Coder on Discord:   / discord   Reach out via email: [email protected] Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire:   / front_end_fire   Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com: https://bsky.app/profile/front-end-fi... Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast:    / @front-endfirepodcast