"The source described leading AI labs or their allies approaching the administration every 3-5 months with an idea to ban open-source models."

The call is coming from inside the house. Anthropic and OpenAI built their AI hype machines too fast and now are desperate to prevent price competition driving the value to $0.

AI is going to be ubiquitous like the spellcheck running in my browser and at or slightly above the cost of electricity to run the models.