David Sacks to Altman and Amodei: "You guys are the frontier" — no regulatory permission needed
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-14
White House AI czar David Sacks sparked debate by telling Sam Altman and Dario Amodei: if unreleased models are scary enough to warrant slowing down, go ahead — but "you guys are the frontier." By market share, revenue growth, and capability, OpenAI and Anthropic form a duopoly on frontier intelligence, so stop pretending antitrust law must be suspended to form a cartel. Critics like @TrueAIHound blasted the statement as an endorsement of firms that, in their view, couldn't emulate fruit-fly-level intelligence despite spending trillions.
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