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Policy2026-09-17 · source-backed
The Wall Street Journal reported the three persuaded Trump to halt a framework Demis Hassabis had put forward. It's the sharpest public evidence yet of the frontier-lab split on pacing, with DeepMind's CEO on the regulation side and Meta, NVIDIA and xAI leadership against, and it comes a day after Zuckerberg publicly rejected a coordinated slowdown.
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Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" on September 12. Altman and Musk agreed within hours. Hassabis called the direction correct. By Monday morning the market had priced it. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.5% and S&P 500 futures 0.8%. Nvidia dropped 3%, AMD 5.7%, and A...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
More AI-generated code did not turn into proportionally more shipped product. That's the internal finding at the center of Reuters' August 26 special report, and it's the most useful number-free sentence I've read this month. Project OT, for Organization Transformation, was ha...
Four senior departures in six days. That's when isolated hires become a pattern. Within about a week of Noam Shazeer and Daniel Jumper leaving, two more senior DeepMind researchers walked. Jonas Adler, the Gemini AI-coding lead, and Alexander Pritzel, a pretraining specialist...
Trump framed the concern as an anti-competitive attack on American data centers benefiting China. Zvi Mowshowitz, writing September 16, admits he had earlier cautioned against reading too much into Trump's initial statements and was wrong, names Jensen Huang as the likely infl...
Huang met Senators Cruz and Warner on July 28 arguing for American leadership in open source and pointing to Nvidia's pledge of up to $500B in domestic AI infrastructure. He separately told YC Startup School the jobs-apocalypse framing is "exactly backwards", that AI kills tas...
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