alt Hacker NewsGiven Anthropic lost two weeks of peak Fable 5 sales to a US government restriction (and by the time they could sell it again OpenAI's GPT-5.6 had taken some wind out of its sails) I would hope that the big AI labs have learned that goading the Feds can backfire spectacularly.
You’re viewing it from a freedom not a profit perspective. If a license to use AI is required, that creates artificial scarcity. The price goes up. If gov declares Qwen et.al apostate, lack of competition increases prices.
And Anthropic’s delayed rollout was a direct response to them trying to impose extra-legislative rules on The Pentagon. I kinda doubt OpenAI has such ‘scruples’.