The limited preview programmes adopted by the sector's two largest companies, weeks apart, have an effect worth naming precisely: they buy time.
The underlying question remains intact. The capability that finds software flaws is the same one that exploits them, and no benchmark separates the two, so the decision about broad release stays pending.
What the format delivers, and it isn't nothing, is reducing the surface of who can ask while governments and companies negotiate a more stable arrangement.
It was during that purchased window that the executive order creating pre-release review, the national security memorandum and the voluntary standard negotiations between government and the three largest companies appeared.
What none of those arrangements reaches is the open-weights model, distributed by download and, once published, irreversible. While that asymmetry exists, every restriction reaches whoever operates a service and leaves out whoever publishes a file.