The AI Slowdown Protects the Labs Already Ahead
Anthropic says frontier AI is dangerous but keeps racing. Regulation makes its competitors pay for the slowdown it will not take alone.

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Anthropic says frontier AI is dangerous but keeps racing. Regulation makes its competitors pay for the slowdown it will not take alone.

The WP Engine fight, the Valkey fork, and agent-written code raise a harder question: what keeps an open-source project honest?

Closed-model guardrails remain tied to the provider, even as comparable open weights spread. Public safety needs controls that survive that reality.

My company merged separate AI tool budgets into one shared pool. That's when Opus versus GLM stopped being an abstract question.

October's report counted 31,039 cuts attributed to AI. It recorded what employers said—not whether deployed systems actually replaced the work.

Meta cut 600 AI roles while still hiring for its superintelligence lab. The move shows which AI work leadership wanted to fund—and which it did not.

Companies can shrink teams without announcing layoffs. They call it AI efficiency, lower hiring needs, and let attrition do the rest.

Replacing Assistant with Gemini fits Google's long pattern of abandoning products instead of earning trust through steady maintenance.

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