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◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Inside OpenAI, agents already work three days for every human day.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Inside OpenAI, agents already work three days for every human day.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.

◆ Signal · Strong · Security · 13 September 2026

The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.

Dario Amodei's 12 September essay calls for pacing capability gains, not halting training, and commits Anthropic unilaterally while urging governments to require others to match. OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki's 6 September essay made a similar case.

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