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Capability regresses by decree

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Welcome to June 14, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The first recorded reversal of the public capability frontier. Not a plateau, not a failed training run — an administrative act that made the best available intelligence worse, and a demonstration that the curve has a policy term in it.

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2026-07-16: The strongest open weights in the West are dethroned within a day

2026-07-04: A throttled model scores ten points below itself and still leads

2026-06-29: Companies rush to post-train and own their own weights

2026-06-28: Chinese and Japanese labs ship models to fill the gap left by a ban

2026-06-27: A government lifts its block for roughly a hundred approved organizations

2026-06-27: Analysis projects the open-versus-closed gap closing to zero

2026-06-20: Chinese open models take the majority of token use

2026-06-17: A Chinese open model takes the lead while the frontier sits unavailable

2026-06-14: A Chinese lab answers the shutdown with radical openness

2026-06-14: The intelligence frontier chart moves backward for the first time

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Capability regresses by decree
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