Bitcoin Red Team forced to apply Chinese AI: Asia Express
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The Bitcoin Red Team has been forced to rely on open source Chinese AI, after OpenAI restricted access.
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Summary
For the next few years crypto investors in Thailand won’t have to pay any capital gains taxes on sales made via platforms licensed by Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission. Thailand previously waved 7% value added tax on crypto gains in early 2024. Bitcoin Red Team founder Rob Hamilton has been forced to rely on open-source Chinese AI models after finding himself restricted from analyzing codebases by OpenAI, highlighting a growing concern that the most capable AI tools aren’t being made available to defenders. “It absolutely guts me as a patriotic American to have to do this, but I will be going back to using Chinese open source models to conduct my research to protect Bitcoin infrastructure,” he said.