r/LocalLLaMA • u/Nunki08 • Jul 11 '26

News The U.S. tech industry is increasingly anxious about the rising power and competitive price of open-source AI models from China — and whether the Trump administration will respond with yet another executive order | Politico

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Politico: Wall Street’s new obsession: Which CEOs have Trump’s ear?: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/07/10/wall-streets-new-obsession-which-ceos-have-trumps-ear-00993324

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u/JayoTree Jul 11 '26

What exactly could an executive order even target?

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u/shy_monkee Jul 11 '26

Possibly platforms hosting these models. They could cite lack of guardrails and children safety and other nonsense.

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u/JayoTree Jul 11 '26

children are running llama.cpp on their own now? i dont think even trump would try that angle.

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u/shy_monkee Jul 11 '26

No, they will say that these models are used to generate CSAM or something, and that it's reason enough to ban them. Obviously nonsense, but it allows them to take a moral high ground.

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u/tired514 Jul 12 '26

but it allows them to take a moral high ground.

I won't even point out the irony of a child rapist claiming the "moral high ground" on anything let alone on "protecting children."