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Government AI Approvals Are Slowing Down Frontier Models — And Open Source Is Winning

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been writing about the government’s new AI approval process for the past week — why the Anthropic-vs-OpenAI rivalry doesn’t matter anymore and which of your tools are actually at risk. But there’s a twist nobody’s talking about: while the US government figures out how to approve frontier models, open-source AI is quietly becoming the most reliable option for people who just need things to work. ...

July 9, 2026 · 6 min · 1223 words · NCR
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