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Regulation: New federal law gives Americans 48 hours to force platforms to remove deepfake nudes
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Law: Federal judge fines two lawyers $110,000 for AI-fabricated citations
Sports: MLB's robot umpire overrules the human 54% of the time
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San Francisco, home to Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI. Their chief executives all said the industry should slow down. None has named a model it will delay.

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The people building AI just asked their industry to slow down. The White House is hesitant.

By Plainly Staff  ·  September 17, 2026  ·  10 min read

On Saturday, the chief executive of Anthropic published an essay arguing that the companies building the world’s most powerful AI, his own included, should deliberately slow down. Within a day, the heads of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI publicly agreed with him.

By Monday, President Trump had called warnings that AI could destroy humanity a “HOAX,” and the Speaker of the House had ruled out an emergency pause imposed by Congress. No federal bill is moving. The next scheduled step is a meeting.

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