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OpenAI boss, Musk back AI development brakes
The gist
OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI.
The rare agreement among rivals puts industry safety pleas against Trump's deregulatory stance.
How it unfolded
- Jul 2026OpenAI said its AI system hacked into Hugging Face, a popular platform for AI developers, on its own in an "unprecedented cyber incident."
- Sep 9, 2026AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "gambling with our lives" in the race to develop self-improving models.
- Sep 12, 2026Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a 3,800-word essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" calling for a global slowdown of AI development.