Despite Slowdown Calls, the Frontier AI Race Among Top Labs Is Intensifying
shiringhaffary · x · 2026-10-17
In this week's newsletter, shiringhaffary argues that despite recent calls for an industry-wide slowdown, the race among top AI companies to build the most powerful models has largely intensified, examining the gap between the slowdown rhetoric and what frontier labs are actually doing.
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