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Maxwell Zeff

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Maxwell Zeff

    The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party (opens the original)

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    Decked out in purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani belted her 2002 single “Underneath It All” to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday morning—but she was just the warm-up. At the end of her performance, Stefani shouted “Dreamforce! Let’s go!” into a checkered microphone before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff strode into the spotlight. Dreamforce is billed as the world’s largest enterprise software conference but feels more like attending a megachurch—especially this year.

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Maxwell Zeff

    OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal (opens the original)

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    OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED. Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing major tech giants on board with the effort. Last weekend, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, published a blog post arguing that t

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Maxwell Zeff

    The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’ (opens the original)

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    Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave warning that the AI race is putting all of our lives at risk. In his post on X, which now has more than 100 million views, Coxon wrote that many of the people building AI share his views and believe time is running out to ensure AI systems are built safely. “The consensus is that the next year or two is crunch time for

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Maxwell Zeff

    GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era (opens the original)

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    OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers and web browsers, writing software, and solving difficult math problems. It plans to make GPT-6 Astra available to paid customers in the coming days, starting with a limited set of organizations, including enterprise clients in its Daybreak early access program, followed by ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise plan subscribers. OpenAI did n

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Maxwell Zeff

    OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk (opens the original)

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    In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. The reason OpenAI gave for the decision is effectively that it can’t trust Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently acquired Cursor in a $60 billion deal. In doing so, OpenAI walked away from one of its most important customers. Cursor has long paid OpenAI fees to offer the ChatGPT-maker’s models to developers using its AI co

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