Regulatory Thresholds Shift to FLOP Standard
deanwball · x · 2026-07-09
Dean Ball notes that he has long advocated for entity-based regulatory thresholds. However, these were removed during lobbying in the legislative process, replaced by thresholds based on FLOP and released models. He believes this shift was driven not by frontier labs, but by the broader "industry."
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