OpenAI's credit rating nudged toward investment grade as labs warn of existential AI risk
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-19
The author mocks the contradiction in today's AI race: Anthropic warns AI could threaten humanity, OpenAI implicitly races ahead — all while Wall Street nudges OpenAI's credit rating from junk toward investment grade, which the author reads as a bid to have public pensions underwrite the very risk labs themselves flag.
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