{"id":111745,"date":"2026-07-20T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/111745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:59:14","slug":"pentagon-slams-openai-executives-claims-on-chinese-ai-curb-citing-a-2026-law-not-some-deep-state-sche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/111745\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Slams OpenAI Executive&#8217;s Claims on Chinese AI Curb, Citing a 2026 Law: &#8216;Not Some Deep State Sche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">The Pentagon has expressed disapproval of OpenAI\u2018s Dean Ball\u2018s stance on regulation, raising questions about the future of OpenAI\u2019s relationship with the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">On Sunday, Dean Ball, head of strategic futures\u00a0at OpenAI, had indicated on X that several U.S. government agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, Commerce, NASA, and Congress, have barred employees from using Chinese AI tools, arguing the restrictions are based on poorly justified safety concerns and have discouraged regulated companies from adopting the technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Defence Under Secretary Emil Michael fired back on X and refuted Ball\u2019s assertion that\u00a0government agencies, including the Pentagon,\u00a0were preventing\u00a0employees from using Chinese AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">He elaborated that Congress passed a 2026 law restricting certain uses of only DeepSeek and High Flyer models, while allowing waivers in specific cases. The measure was approved through the legislative process, not through a \u201cDeep State\u201d initiative, as Ball alleged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">\u201cIt went through the democratic process not some Deep State scheme like he would prefer,\u201d Michael wrote.<\/p>\n<p>AI Access Battle Intensifies<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Earlier this month,\u00a0OpenAI was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/private-markets\/26\/07\/60237369\/openai-to-offer-trump-administration-a-5-equity-stake-and-other-ai-firms-could-also-follow-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly considering<\/a> offering a 5% equity stake\u00a0to the U.S. government as part of a broader effort to strengthen ties with the Trump administration and secure financial backing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Disclaimer:\u00a0This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Image via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon has expressed disapproval of OpenAI\u2018s Dean Ball\u2018s stance on regulation, raising questions about the future of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20703,9146,8111,5893,7776,9655,5896,5892,157,5891,7707,9466,14898,18580],"class_list":["post-111745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-category-asia","tag-category-government","tag-category-markets","tag-category-news","tag-category-private-markets","tag-category-startups","tag-category-tech","tag-cms-wordpress","tag-openai","tag-pageisbzpro-bz","tag-tag-anthropic","tag-tag-openai","tag-tag-pentagon","tag-tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}