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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by throwaw12 on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:50PM (#48692434)
Anthropic and OpenAI: Dear Uncle Sam, it seems laptops became too powerful, can you please do something

Uncle Sam: For national security reasons starting from now on every purchase of GPU model with higher than X Petaflops will need written permission by the US president

Anthropic and OpenAI: Look poor citizens, we are willing to share our capacity with you in limited form, by using our LLM you can avoid spending 35 years in the waiting list to buy a GPU, by the way, to simplify pricing, here is our new pricing with 5700% increase. Enjoy

Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by buran77 on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:26PM (#48692789)
It's the age old "Help me, politicians. You're my only hope".

Anthropic, Open AI & Co. realized at some point that if they can't make money with barely any competition they sure as hell won't if the market is flooded. So here they are slamming the door behind them.

Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by xeonmc on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:19PM (#48693283)
> Anthropic, Open AI & Co. realized at some point that if they can't make money with barely any competition they sure as hell won't if the market is flooded. So here they are slamming the door behind them.

Jokes on them, there won't be new entrants not because the door is shut but because it doesn't actually make money. The whole scheme is propped up by illusions to grift the investors, fewer competition only breaks the illusion. But I guess those folks aren't the types to understand "rising tide lifts all boats", or in this case, rising sewage buoys all rats.

Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by GolfPopper on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:49PM (#48693521)
Don't forget: "Questioning our results on the awesomeness of the current administration is treason."
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by microgpt on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:27PM (#48692801)
China: look at these GPUs we reverse engineered, do you want an RTX 5090 for half the price Nvidia sells them for?
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by forshaper on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:15PM (#48692690)
finally, our GPU 'Come and take it' flags will be understood