Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.

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  • Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.
  • Reported by CoinDesk and published Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:43:33 UTC.

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  1. Nvidia considers $10B investment in potential record Anthropic IPO: Reuters

  2. Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees

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