An OpenAI researcher publicly rebuts the regulatory-capture reading of the slowdown week.

Adam Majmudar posted on X that "from the outside, it is very reasonable to interpret the past 2 weeks as an orchestrated industry-wide regulatory capture strategy," then argued against that reading from inside, saying nobody had properly explained what the lab statements are responding to. 664 upvotes and 146 comments on r/singularity, the day after a 1,177-upvote post claiming "AGI has essentially arrived, just not publicly." The sub's own top-voted correction to all of it was a thread titled "Too many rumours, too little reliable information" listing three unverified claims circulating as fact. Good instinct.