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

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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 fronti…

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  1. 2026-09-14 22:59 · The Verge AI
    Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

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