Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
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Public comments about coordination and pacing are now being cited as evidence of a horizontal agreement in Buist v. Anthropic — the legal system is catching up to AI lab rhetoric. Any executive talking about “slowing down” or “moving in lockstep” with peers should assume those words may be read through an antitrust lens later.
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When the dominant supplier of AI compute says current regulation is enough, that’s a signal to operators that policy risk may be lower in the near term than some doom narratives imply. Treat this as a window: if you’re planning heavy AI capex, assume a few more years of incremental rules rather than hard brakes, but keep a contingency plan if the political mood swings.
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Debates about “slowing down” are mostly about where the brake gets applied—labs, regulators, or customers—not whether the race continues. For operators, assume capability curves keep steepening and focus on your own pacing: where to exploit current models, and where to explicitly defer adoption until governance catches up.
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