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

Global Published 15 September 2026, 03:59 · archived 14 Sep 2026

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 […]

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