The Singapore Side Door: How Blacklisted Chinese Firms Buy America's Best AI
Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent are on the Pentagon's 1260H list. Their Singapore-registered subsidiaries can still buy frontier AI from OpenAI and Google, entirely legally, because US export rules police places and named entities rather than capability. The chip loophole fight has arrived at the software layer, where the border is a terms-of-service page.
Read full story →The Newspapers Stop Arguing About Fair Use and Start Arguing About the Evidence
The New York Times and the Daily News want a judge to sanction OpenAI, alleging it hid and destroyed the datasets and logs that would show what ChatGPT was trained on. It is a procedural fight, and it may matter more than the principle: you cannot litigate fair use if only the defendant is allowed to see the facts.
Read full story →Seventy-Two Hours, Four Labs, One Message: The Model Is No Longer the Product
GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, MiniMax's $2 billion raise. Strip out the names and every lab made the same two moves: sell the finished job instead of the model, and cut the price hard. That is not generosity. Agents burn tokens by the bucket, and this is what commoditisation looks like from the inside.
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