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China’s Open-Weight Models Will Be Spared US Safety Tests

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1 SIGNALFIRST DETECTED 5 August 2026
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13 Jul
FT: Companies Turn to Chinese Open Weight Models to Cut Costs

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29 Sept
Are you worried about a potential ban of Chinese open weight models?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Anthropic released the GLM article today. Trump is getting very involved. </p> <p>Do you foresee Chinese open weight models getting banned soon?

OPINION · WHEN · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
16 Oct
China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies (including large models, agents & clusters); already open-sourced tech is exempted

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology released a draft revision to the Catalog of Technologies

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10 May
Big AI Lobbyists: if you regulate us at all, we lose to China because they will never regulate ... Actual China: "safety first, innovation second ... Development must be controllable and orderly."

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OPINION · WHERE · OpenAIOPEN STORY
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