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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by gaws on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:07PM (#49023925)
"Nooooo!!! We already laid off half our workforce and got priced out of models from American companies. We need the cheaper models, even risking giving all our data to a foreign adversary, so our big number goes up long enough for us to get acquired!!!"
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by throw1234567891 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:22PM (#49025962)
It will come for you too, fool. You obviously have no fucking clue what’s the deal with open-weight models. Can I run Fable on my computer? No. Can I run Depseek 4 or glm5.2 on my computer? Yes.
Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by gaws on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:00PM (#49027245)
> It will come for you too, fool.

Thankfully, I'm not in a position in which any of this will negatively impact me. But, please, keep seething.

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by throw1234567891 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:06PM (#49028052)
Proverbial “you”. You laugh, hopefully your leg doesn’t slip before it truly does not matter anymore.