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The AI Reckoning Week: When the Lights, the Wallets, and the Workers All Said "Enough"
In a single week, AI's architects asked for a slowdown, investors punished Meta for spending $145 billion, and regulators shut the door on data centres. The AI party has hit a wall.
The Announcement
Something extraordinary happened this week. For the first time, the people actually building artificial intelligence — not critics, not academics, not Luddites, but the engineers and researchers inside OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and their peers — put their names on a letter asking the U.S. government to slow them down. More than 1,200 employees signed the "Pacing the Frontier" petition, which calls for an international framework capable of throttling AI development...
AI regulation
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Meta earnings
AI safety
data centre moratorium
investor skepticism
Pacing the Frontier
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