Unpopular opinion:
Relying on llms hosted outside Western jurisdictions poses a lot greater national‑security threat than treating frontier access as a private moat or a tool of strategic leverage.
Availability is a bargaining chip that should be exchanged for real outcomes.
Last night, I asked GPT-6 Astra to compose a Mozart-inspired symphony in Python from scratch.
After a lot of tone-deaf iterations: four movements, 21 mins, rendered with DawDreamer.
This is First Light: