When asked about the flurry of weekend blog posts and tweets from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, SpaceX, (and Alphabet’s Hassabis) calling for a coordinated slowdown on the development of advanced AI models, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said, “Fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance.” That partially aligns with Trump’s view that the execs are overreacting and “bringing up things that won’t happen,” but at least Beijing supports international regulation. [Link: China says AI CEOs' call for a slowdown is 'fear mongering' | https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/china-ai-slowdown-us-tech-ceos.html | CNBC]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for an AI slowdown on Saturday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and others, also chimed in.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have joined the Anthropic CEO’s call to slow the development pace of their most advanced – and most lucrative – AI models.