AI News September 15, 2026
Today's AI headlines: Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
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 proposal for embedding third-party auditors, regulating domestic labs, and reaching a global slowdown agreement. Their critics, however, argued they simply wante
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of them here.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Amodei's Saturday morning essay outlined three steps for pacing AI development: embedded third-party evaluators that can verify if a company is adheri