OpenAI adds Trump-appointed NSA Spy Chief on their board 🕵️♂️
https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-general/
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“The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees”
“… pour tout pays souhaitant développer ou accéder à l’IA de frontière, c’est un signal majeur : la souveraineté technologique ne peut plus rester un concept”
“[Cette mesure] porte un coup à la rentabilité de modèles d’une valeur de plusieurs milliards de $ […] rendant le développement de frontière non rentable.”
“une série d’erreurs stratégiques et la dynamique de l’écosystème chinois ont déjà considérablement réduit l’avantage des 🇺🇸 sur la 🇨🇳 dans la course à l’IA.”
4 months later
Following the Trump administration’s example, China is now proposing export restrictions on LLMs
"The proposal would restrict exports of core technology for models containing at least 2 trillion parameters — like Kimi K3 or Qwen3.8-Max — or ranking among the world’s top 10 on measures including performance, usage and safety. The curb would cover model weights, checkpoints, source code & architecture.”
Europe needs to build its own models, and show a third-way for the 🌍
https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/art/2026/art_d7661dbf62794345a221404f82a25959.html
4 months earlier
Dario doesn't seem too concerned, or prefers not to know, that Claude was involved in a targeting decision through Palantir with outdated data that killed hundreds of school children
"Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations [... Anthropic] had installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications“
https://www.ft.com/content/d02d91b3-2636-454e-9442-dc7e69f51815?syn-25a6b1a6=1