The Trump administration's handling of Anthropic showed that regardless of what the contract or the law says or means, they will severely penalize any vendor who refuses their demands. And OpenAI stepped right into that relationship immediately after the administration showed that. So either they were signing up for a supply-chain risk designation and whatever other punishments the Trump administration dreams up, or they're complying.

If this sounds crazy to you, though, I'd like to know, and understand why. I miss ChatGPT/Codex.