How are people getting so upset over this? OpenAI asked for regulation to validate their scaremongering. Now they've allied with the government, just like they said they would.

It's 2026 now, you can't pin your hopes and dreams on a random business that treats you like exit liquidity. When you pray to the cannibal king, you get what you ask for.

The information is highly respected in this space.

I don't know how effective it might be though given that they would be open-weights.

Could US theoretically ban the weights from running on its own soil, I suppose this would just put investment more within other datacenter within Europe,India,Australia and if not, then models could be ran within China itself and even at the worst case scenarios you could use a VPN to access them and VPN nowadays are using Quic/http3 so it would be indistinguishable for the most part from other normal internet traffic.

So suffice to say I am unsure what might really happen to be honest.

I believe the initial reporting comes from 'The Information' which is highly respected. They have a substantial paywall however, so it won't likely be linked here. (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-administration...)