The Trump administration is considering an executive order, and other means, to ban Chinese open-source models within in the United States. Kimi K3 has reignited this debate. Reporting this morning by Axios. Commerce is also considering adding Chinese AI labs to the Entity List.
This does explain some of David Sacks's posts yesterday. It was known for a while that open-source regulation was a contentious debate ongoing within the administration, and he would have been strongly against it. axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-…
Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies.
The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.
That should say each customer, not each user. I mean, you could interpret it either way, but customer probably means corporation in this case. Unless it really is that crazy. I'm adding this so I don't get community noted.
Feeling pretty good about this! I bet it's been ready for quite a while.
Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to determine the global standards and rules for AI in a closed-door meeting this morning at the G7.
Dario Amodei also said in his address that the coalition should structure access to frontier models and hardware - including both chips and other critical components - in a way that excludes China.