AI’s Safety Pivot Runs Into a Race It Cannot Pause
A cyberattack by an OpenAI agent swarm appears to have changed the tone at the top: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI leaders now publicly endorse slowing LLM development. The catch is that “slow down” remains undefined, while the labs still need to race ahead to build defensive systems, attract investors, and avoid falling behind. That tension is becoming the industry’s central safety problem.