Mark Zuckerberg says AI doesn’t need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safe

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Mark Zuckerberg says AI doesn’t need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safeWorldPing
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What happened

Zuckerberg aligned more closely with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, who has said AI companies should “run as fast as they can.”…

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  • Reported by Fortune and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:13:24 UTC.

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  2. Mark Zuckerberg says AI doesn’t need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safe

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