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Archive September 15, 2026 01:07 UTC
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Signal: The industry agreed to slow down in public, then shipped, sued and bought all day - the market and the White House both called the bluff.
Altman Joins the Slowdown Call. White House: Trojan Horse.
OpenAI's chief endorsed pacing and says the company will not wait for legislation or an antitrust waiver to start writing safety cases - hours before the vice-president called the labs' plea a Trojan horse and 1,386 of their own employees signed a statement backing it.
Pacing the Frontier: 1,386 frontier-lab employees sign a public call to buy time BBC: Anthropic co-founder says a mandatory kill switch may be needed NY Post: Michael Burry calls the slowdown plea self-serving

NEWApple Wants Inside OpenAI's Unreleased Device
Apple asked a federal judge to force OpenAI to hand over its unreleased hardware and the staff who touched allegedly stolen files, arguing a court cannot 'put the genie back in the bottle' - hours before OpenAI bought Apple's former Portrait Mode engineers for $300m.
TechCrunch: OpenAI buys Glass Imaging for over $300m, hiring Apple's Portrait Mode founders 9to5Mac: Musk drops Apple from the antitrust suit, keeps pressing OpenAI
NEWChips Fell, Cyber Rallied, Nvidia Off 3.4%
Calls to slow AI down cost the Nasdaq 0.6%, Nvidia 3.4% and Micron 5.3% on Monday, while CrowdStrike and Palo Alto led the S&P 500 - the market buying the threat and selling the buildout in one session.
MarketWatch: cybersecurity was Monday's best-performing S&P sector as the trade split CNBC: Melius says the labs are 'not good at talking stocks' and are freaking the market
NEWNADELLA: 'YOU WILL LOSE PERMISSION TO OPERATE'
A day after publishing a 37-page code binding its models never to resist shutdown, Microsoft's chief executive told employees on an internal board that the industry must take all the time it needs or 'anyway lose permission to operate.'
Microsoft AI: the 37-page draft opens six weeks of comment, revision due by year-end The Next Web: no external verification, no penalty, and sales helped draft it
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