Yeah, I think a lot of the "slow down" rumblings we're hearing from OpenAI and Anthropic are really overtures toward regulatory capture; basically, "now that we're in the lead, we need to lock this shit down so nobody else can catch up."

but.. OpenAI and Anthropic can't stop China and EU, can they?

Depends on your world view, they might or might not come up with something better. but I guess we can agree nothing with stop them from _trying_?

US successfully enforce DMCA and other copyright stuff on EU while giving free pass to own bigtech now.

China will certainly compete though.