AI CEOs Preach Slowing Down While Anthropic, SoftBank, xAI Race Ahead
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-15
A weekend recap of AI's contradictions: CEOs suddenly talk pacing, standards and human control, while Anthropic preps a potential trillion-dollar IPO, SoftBank borrows $11.87B for its OpenAI bet, and xAI pushes Grok onward. Nobody is actually slowing down — they're arguing over who gets to say so.
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