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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

The Verge · September 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation.

Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed to agree on aspects of all three things.

Anthropic and OpenAI had already been dropping hints that they and other labs were working on some kind of … Read the full story at The Verge.

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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

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