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White House AI Restrictions Enable Chinese Open-Weight Models to Rival US Leaders

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As I discussed on @CNBC it's been two weeks since the White House effectively banned Anthropic's Fable and held back GPT-5.6, and we now have *TWO* new Chinese open-weight models that rival the best from the US. There is no possible justification for this.

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"What the House did was they smushed together all of these different bills from different members who had their own goals and their own constituencies ... the bill really doesn't make sense." Fmr. Facebook security officer @alexstamos on the Online Safety Bill https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/06/30/online-safety-bill-doesnt-make-any-sense-says-former-facebook-security-officer-alex-stamos.html

9:17 AM · Jun 30, 2026 · 197 Views

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Alex Stamos@alexstamos

Over the weekend, the tech-right VCs who helped elect this Administration on the promise of their smart approach to regulation (cough) started to slightly, barely, dip their toe into criticizing a regulatory regime that would have had them calling for a Dem impeachment. Brave!

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Meanwhile, US labs are getting the message that they should make sure that their models are never very good at cyber evaluations, lest they land in endless model purgatory, with no documented method of earning plenary indulgences yet available.

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