The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of open-weight models, yet OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lobby privately for those same restrictions amid security concerns and powerful business interests.

OpenAI and Anthropic push for US restrictions on Chinese AI models, but Silicon Valley critics call it protectionism disguised as national

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