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OpenAI Blog 11 months ago
OpenAI sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom requesting that the state align its AI regulations with national and global standards. The letter does not specify particular regulatory proposals or timelines. OpenAI argues that harmonized regulation would allow California to maintain AI leadership while avoiding fragmented rules across jurisdictions.
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28 July 2026
Anthropic's Dario Amodei has drawn a careful line between open-source principles and national security, proposing a middle path as the AI industry fractures over model weights. Rather than backing blanket bans, Amodei argues for mandatory safety testing before release of sufficiently capable models—a framework that would supposedly catch dangerous capabilities while leaving open-weight development intact. The catch: nobody has agreed who decides what's dangerous enough to test, or who actually runs those tests. OpenAI and Google, meanwhile, have signed a 50-company letter endorsing open weights without qualification, signaling a sharp divergence from Anthropic's position. The real tension isn't between open and closed anymore; it's about control. Amodei's worry centers on authoritarian governments weaponizing open models for bioweapons or mass surveillance, which he sees as more urgent than garden-variety AI companies simply using freely available weights. His actual proposal stacks three layers: chip export restrictions, crackdowns on model distillation (extracting proprietary models into smaller open ones), and that nebulous safety-testing regime. The first two are enforcement tactics; the third is a governance question nobody wants to answer. If testing becomes the bottleneck, whoever controls it controls the timeline for all open-source releases—which might be Anthropic's real goal, framed as caution.
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