Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture

Re:Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture by amluto on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:36AM (#49697619)

It’s not only hubris — I think it’s actively counterproductive. The US could choose to:

(a) Sell many billions of dollars of fancy chips to China, thus bringing in billions of dollars of money and billions of dollars of trade balance improvement. And let China continue to build models quickly when they seem oddly happy to export the trained weights for free.

(b) Decline to do so, thus reducing exports and very very strongly encouraging China to do everything in their power to avoid needing to depend on our chips.

In exchange for (b), what do we gain? A temporary advantage in model training and availability?

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Re:Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture by superxpro12 on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:36AM (#49698762)

This admin is super in favor of isolationist policies right now. Whatever can bring in the most bribes. To the detriment of 99% of the public.

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Re:Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture by ygjb on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:20PM (#49705006)

Don't forget that when they increase export restrictions under the current US regime they signal further that economic ties are on their terms not fair terms. The rest of the world will continue to steer towards alternatives to US tech.

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