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Twenty-plus firms urge policymakers against restricting open weights

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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than twenty other firms urged policymakers against premature restrictions on open weights, with Nvidia's letter likening it to the 1980s open-source fight, while the two trillion-dollar holdouts sat out.

Reporting date: 2026-07-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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Twenty-plus firms urge policymakers against restricting open weights
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Reporting date: 2026-07-26
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Claim: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than twenty other firms urged policymakers against premature restrictions on open weights, with Nvidia's letter likening it to the 1980s open-source fight, while the two trillion-dollar holdouts sat out.
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- Welcome to July 26, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-26-2026
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