By forcing customer-by-customer approval of GPT-5.6 instead of a broad release, the Trump administration is handing large incumbent AI labs a de facto regulatory moat, since only big, well-resourced companies will get timely access while nimble startups are locked out.
Pasha explains that the administration's plan to approve GPT-5.6 access on a customer-by-customer basis is producing backlash because it effectively grants large incumbents a regulatory moat while startups—who would otherwise move fastest—are shut out. ✦ AI generated
Pasha · The Cognitive Revolution · 2026-06-26 · original ↗
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if you're going to approve only the big companies then the startups don't get access to this and the startups are the ones which who are nimble enough to adopt and attack the big companies and you are um basically providing the big companies regulatory mode which is what you know you didn't you didn't want to do and you've ended up doing this.
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8:16you're going to approve only the big companies then the startups don't get access to this and the startups are the ones which who are nimble enough to adopt and attack the big companies and you are um basically providing the big companies regulatory mode which is what you know you didn't you didn't want to do and you've ended up doing this. So that's one reaction. Uh the second reaction
8:40>> valid I'd say. Yeah, valid and and in fact in fact what what people were saying that the larger companies were aiming for from the beginning which was a regulatory mode. Um the second reaction I think was from Dean Ball. uh Dean B had a had a good uh write up on it and he said u I think the administration does not yet realize that if you delay too long you will end up in
9:07a market uh market downturn which can then go into a recession and then a depression because there's a lot of money involved at this point. So that was the next thing um that that that struck me. Uh there's not really that much to say about this. At the end of the day, uh you're going to have to release at some point and at the end of the day the uh
9:31the capabilities are going to be broadly available within 6 to 12 months anyway. Um so I don't know. >> Um I have clear that the administration is not adding anything to anthropics expertise. That's really the the sad fact and you know not open a eyes either. Um >> you know I I I'll be I'll be like very very blunt. Um on anthropic the opening eye side you're going to get like
10:08Nicholas Carlini who is the all-time most published security researcher renowned in the field. um and so renowned in fact that uh he can say something and every single chief information security officer in the United States will listen to what he has to say and u you know take that into account and on the other side um you know you have pockets of expertise like you know Kais and you know a couple of