# Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

**Published:** September 14, 2026
**Author:** Hayden Field
**Source:** The Verge — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/is-big-tech-s-ai-slowdown-a-safety-pact-or-a-cartel

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was…

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**Tags:** #Google DeepMind #OpenAI #Anthropic #Илон Маск #Сэм Альтман

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