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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a…

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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…

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AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…

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Speech-to-Text APIs Compared: Muse Cuts Cost 5x [2026]

Meta shipped a real-time transcription model on September 1, 2026, and quietly forced every other speech-to-text API vendor to defend their pricing. Muse Voice Transcribe, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, landed at the top of the Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming leaderboard with a 3.1% word error rate and a price of roughly $0.18 per hour…

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LLM Prompt Caching: Cut API Costs 90% in 12 Steps [2026]

Every one of the four major LLM providers now ships some form of prompt caching, and as of September 14, 2026, most developers still are not using it correctly. GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek V4-Pro each expose a caching layer that can cut input-token costs by 90% or more, but…

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: Abliterated Builds Hit HF [2026]

Hours after DeepSeek pushed its new V4.1 Flash model to HuggingFace under an MIT license on September 10, 2026, independent developers had already stripped its safety layers and uploaded “abliterated” and “uncensored” forks to the same platform. By September 13, at least two separate community builds were live and drawing steady download traffic, according to…

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China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’

China has rejected calls from some of America’s most prominent AI executives to slow the development of advanced artificial intelligence, putting Beijing on the same side of a widening debate as investor Michael Burry and former Meta AI chief Yann […] The post China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to…

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