Toro4BTC on Nostr: OpenAI and Google just told the FT they sell frontier AI to Singapore arms of ...

OpenAI and Google just told the FT they sell frontier AI to Singapore arms of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, three companies the Pentagon flags as tied to China's military.

The mechanism is not a leak. Both defend it on the record. OpenAI blocks direct API access from mainland China but allows Chinese owned businesses through Singapore where safeguards can be applied. Google's line.. available in Singapore and Hong Kong subject to usage policies. The Pentagon list tracks entities. AI compute tracks capability delivery. A Singapore registered arm of a blacklisted parent is not on the list. The export control system built for physical goods shipped in containers never closed the seam for a black box accessed over an API.

Then OpenAI told the FT it suspended one Alibaba affiliated user last month for suspected distillation, using a model's outputs to train a competing system. Blacklists catch the company. They do not catch the training signal that flows back through API responses.