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Weekly AI: the 'pace the frontier' pact — Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI agree to slow down, while IPOs and compute deals keep accelerating
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set out a three-step slowdown plan on 12 September, and within 48 hours OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsed it — a rare show of unity between rival labs. Amodei's first step, embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access, is operational at Anthropic and being matched by OpenAI. Behind the unity, the commercial machine has not paused: Anthropic agreed a six-year $13.7 billion compute deal with RUM Group and is targeting a $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO; SoftBank's Tokyo shares fell about 13% as safety rhetoric collided with private capex.
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