The leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have publicly called for a pact to slow the pace of AI competition and have privately discussed creating a new safety body, citing concerns about loss of control. The Trump administration is pushing in the opposite direction, seeking to accelerate the tempo of the US AI race. For financial institutions, the split signals regulatory uncertainty around the pace of frontier development, and any coordinated slowdown among the three leading labs would have structural implications for competitive dynamics and the pace at which frontier-model capex translates into shipped capability.
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