AI & Tech Brief: Exclusive | An open-source framework

The Trump administration and AI industry are negotiating a capability framework for U.S. open-source models in response to Chinese Mythos-class models expected to be freely available within 6-12 months. Separately, data centre energy consumption may be lower than projected due to experimental advances in transmission efficiency. If you're building or distributing open-source AI models in the U.S., the government is about to draw a line around what you can release—and it's being drawn by watching what China releases first. You have months to decide whether you're building toward that permitted capability ceiling or pivoting to closed models.