Sam Altman Is Ready to Decelerate — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #82
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| WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 82 · 20 STORIES |
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Sam Altman Is Ready to Decelerate
The most reliably accelerationist executive in AI has changed his position, and the reason he gives is personal: "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally." More than 1,171 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed a letter the same week asking the US government to help pace the frontier. |
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Opinion Sorry, Sam and Elon, We Have Not Reached the Singularity |
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Future of Work Jensen Huang Says AI Is Killing Tasks, Not Jobs |
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AI & Media Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a 'Witch Hunt' |
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Cybersecurity Cyera Agrees to Acquire Oasis Security for $1B to Safeguard AI Agents |
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Enterprise AI Snowflake Launches Cortex AI Gateway to Rein In Runaway Agent Costs |
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