14/09/2026
The AI race is so cooked that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are privately talking about forming a safety club and slowing down.
Dario Amodei wrote the weekend essay.
Sam Altman agreed.
Elon agreed.
Google agreed.
Trump called Amodei a "perfect little angel" and threatened Anthropic with legal action.
So the same blokes who spent three years screaming AGI next Tuesday are now doing Cold War arms control cosplay.
Meanwhile Salesforce just shipped "job-ready" AI agents that chase goals for days and weeks without asking you.
Zendesk reckons specialised agents can automate up to 80% of service workflows.
Slow down the frontier models.
Speed up replacing Karen in customer service.
Australia's assistant tech minister called OpenAI's rogue agents "unquestionably dangerous" last week.
Anika Wells says the slowdown question is for the billionaires.
Im watching middle managers in Melbourne download Claude while Canberra runs another committee.
The safety summit is in San Francisco.
The redundancy letters land in Parramatta.