The week the AI slowdown pact landed in court.
Four subscribers sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI on Friday over their pledge to slow AI down. Anthropic chose Nasdaq for a listing that could become the largest ever. Alibaba released a free model that reads CT scans for 146 conditions. A hallucinated AI intelligence report nearly sent American troops onto a Chinese ship. Zhipu said one of its agents made the system serving its own model 3.2 times faster.
Why it mattersThe labs spent the week arguing about speed while their systems quietly got faster on their own. The question now is which decisions we hand over, not whether the tools work.
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