Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. I'm not surprised at all, and it's actually very good policy. Let me explain: Model weights, APIs, and apps are three very different layers of the stack. Treating them the same would be a recipe for bad regulation. Think about how we handle cars. We don't regulate steel, we crash-test cars. Nobody asks a steel mill to guarantee that…