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Sharp takes on power, incentives, and the stories the industry tells itself.

Geoffrey Hinton at Collision 2023 in Toronto. Photo by Ramsey Cardy / Collision via Sportsfile, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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“The model stopped itself” is the new safety theater

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have a shared genre: the agent that wandered, noticed, and left. That is a story you tell a reporter. It is not a gate.

ByJordan HaleColumnistSeptember 19, 2026

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaking in Taipei, 9 November 2023. Photo by the Office of the President of the Republic of China, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Dario wants a pace. Jensen wants a purchase order.

Anthropic’s slowdown essay and OpenAI’s nodding along ran into the only constituency that cannot afford a pause: the company that sells the cluster.

ByJordan HaleColumnistSeptember 17, 2026