20VC x SaaStr: Washington Lifts the Fable 5 Ban, Sam Floats Handing the Government 5%, and Why Every Tech Giant Is Racing to Become the Next IBM

According to SaaStr, the latest 20VC crossover podcast with Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O'Driscoll digs into a busy week in AI policy. Washington has lifted its nineteen-day ban on the Fable five model, and the panel weighs what a structured pre-approval process could mean for how labs ship future models. They also unpack a proposal floated by OpenAI that every frontier lab hand the U.S. government a five percent stake, and debate why the biggest tech companies now seem to be racing to become the next IBM.

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