The cheap option is the one they want banned

The New York Times reports that OpenAI and Anthropic privately lobbied Washington to restrict open-source models — two days after both sat out an industry letter defending them, and the morning Kimi K3's weights go up. Then the other end of the same fight: Tesla capping employees at $200 a week of AI tokens, Uber burning a year's coding-tool budget in four months, and the named companies switching to Chinese models to make the bill smaller. Plus a 28.9-million-parameter model running on an $8 microcontroller, because most of its weights turned out not to need memory at all.