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Google looked at Earth and wanted more cloud

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

Google looked at Earth and wanted more cloud

TL;DRMajor AI leaders agreed to slow development; critics question if it's genuine safety or market manipulation.

Why it matters: If real, it sets AI safety precedent; if fake, it's antitrust-vulnerable collusion harming competition.

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…

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