Trump’s Burdensome AI Regulation; Apple’s Price Hike

Remember back to last December, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to “remove barriers to United States AI leadership”? Trump said he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s “attempt to paralyze this industry” and planned a “minimally burdensome national standard” for regulation. It’s a different story now.

Today, The Information reported that in response to a request from the Trump administration, OpenAI was releasing its latest model only to a small group of companies. The government will approve access “customer by customer” during the preview period. This follows the administration’s imposition of export controls on Anthropic’s Fable model. How exactly does either of these moves square with the phrase “minimally burdensome”?