Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a […]

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
Anthropic and OpenAI did not call for a pause. Read the wording: 'good for the world to have the option', 'possible' to slow down 'when need…
Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO (Wall Street Journal)
shit is getting real

Source: The Verge AI | 2026-09-14

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