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Archive September 14, 2026 15:07 UTC
Signal: Asked to be slowed, Washington called it a conspiracy - so the labs write their own rules, and the chip buyers doubt the boom.
The Labs Asked for Rules. Trump Called It a Conspiracy.
The president answered four CEOs' safety plea by calling opposition to AI a 'SICK conspiracy,' reminding the labs he holds 'tremendous criminal and regulatory power' over them, and naming Amodei - while Nvidia shed 3.3% and SoftBank 13%.
Globe and Mail: Cohere's CEO calls the coordinated slowdown 'cartel' behaviour SCMP: Beijing calls it fearmongering while its spy chief warns AI threatens party rule The Register: Big AI sets its terms for regulatory capture, calls it 'Pace the Frontier'

Anthropic Wants a Slowdown and a $2 Trillion Float
Anthropic filed confidentially in June at a $965bn valuation and could seek $2 trillion next month while its own CEO argues the industry must slow down - and the FT reports it has told investors it will profit again, on adjusted operating income.
TFN: the Nasdaq debut could match SpaceX's $86.3bn record as Claude revenue passes $65B The Information: a $13.7bn six-year compute lease with Trump-linked Rum Group
AI Can Unmask Georgia Ballots Before November
A known Dominion flaw lets shuffled ballot records be put back in order, and a Princeton researcher says a public AI assistant did the unshuffling and matched many voters to ballots from May's primary - Georgia says it has mitigated, advocates say not enough.
NEWMicrosoft's AI Promises Not to Resist the Off Switch
A 37-page draft commits MAI models never to resist interruption or shutdown, widen their own scope or hide their reasoning - and rejects AI consciousness and model welfare, a direct swipe at Anthropic - with no enforcement named.
Microsoft AI: the draft opens six weeks of public comment, revised version due by year-end The Next Web: no external verification, no penalty, and sales helped draft it
Ghost Note The Cipher Held 370 Years. Fable Took 44 Minutes.