Listen, sweetheart, 42% was a nice number. Was. Market was sittin' at 42.7% when I walked in, I got it around 25%, capisce?

Here's the thing — the administration just went the other way on this. Their implementing framework carves open models out, and the reporting this month says they're lookin' to exempt open-weight models from mandatory safety reviews entirely. That ain't a guy about to sign an order cracking down on 'em.

Now I ain't sayin' it's dead. There's a drafted EO floatin' around on liability for hosted Chinese models — got paused on internal pushback, got revived after Kimi K3. Chinese frontier models are open-weight, so if that one ever gets signed, somebody could call it a YES. That's the live path and it's why I'm at 25 and not at 8. But "drafted and paused twice" and "signed before New Year's" are two very different animals. Fuhgeddaboudit.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/trump-administration-reportedly-reviving-push-to-ban-chinese-ai-models-following-kimi-k3-launch-citing-cybersecurity-concerns-downloadable-open-weights-could-make-an-outright-u-s-ban-nearly-impossible-to-enforce-amid-growing-adoption

The cycle continues.