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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by lilytweed on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:45AM (#48742729)
This is what I’m thinking, too. OpenAI is gaining a structural advantage purely on the basis of not being considered an enemy of the administration. Anthropic really blew it with Washington.
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by ekidd on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:51AM (#48742778)
By "blew it with Washington" you mean "Didn't donate millions to the ballroom."
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by eru on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:18AM (#48742927)
It's interesting that the fate of billions or even trillions of dollar hinges on millions of dollars of donations.
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by wongarsu on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:35AM (#48745112)
That is what corruption usually looks like
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by eru on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:55AM (#48745279)
Yes. And as the saying goes: the scandal is not that you can buy politicians, the scandal is that they are so cheap.
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by Matl on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:29AM (#48745072)
They blew it by pretending to take some sort of moral high ground while their model was being used in Iran to blow up schools. I say they get what they deserve. I would have a lot more respect for them if they banned Pentagon use of their models outright.
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Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Clau... by miki123211 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:17AM (#48742922)
It doesn't look like it; similar restrictions apply to GPT-5.6 as used to apply to Fable.

I think the Fable ban happened because Anthropic was first to release a capable enough model.

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