Texas penalizes data centers for hiding water use and AI leaders call for development slowdown as Nvidia expands its data center buyer base.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been working together on AI safety for several weeks
Three frontier AI labs are coordinating on safety as their own executives call for slowing the most powerful models.
By June Park · 3wOpenAI's global policy chief Chris Lehane said on Sept. 15 that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been working together for several weeks to address artificial intelligence safety issues. That disclosure lands alongside a separate, overlapping call from inside those same organizations to slow down.
Around Sept. 13, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk issued what one outlet described as a sudden but not unexpected call to slow the development of frontier AI models. Executives at several major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have echoed that call on safety and control grounds. The coordination Lehane described and the slowdown call are now on the record at the same moment, from the same set of organizations.
The read here is that three companies publicly asking for restraint while simultaneously coordinating behind the scenes appears to be a managed move, not a spontaneous outbreak of caution - though the facts do not establish who initiated it or what the coordination has produced.
The internal alarm is not only coming from the top. Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic pretraining researcher who spent three years across Anthropic and OpenAI, resigned in early September 2026 and warned publicly that the people building these systems earnestly believe AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade. That is a researcher, not a policy executive, and the warning came from someone who had been inside the work.
On the product side, Salesforce and Nvidia announced on Sept. 15 the release of Koa, a new CRM reasoning model built for Salesforce's Agentforce platform. A new model ships on the same day the policy layer is calling for slowdowns - that gap between the public messaging and the release calendar is worth holding onto.
OpenAI VP of global policy Ann O'Leary separately stated that the company is working with governments and safety bodies including Australia's AI Safety Institute, and is in active talks with the federal government on copyright. On Sept. 15, President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the All-In summit in Los Angeles to discuss AI. Neither call has produced a named outcome on the record.
What the facts do not yet carry is any detail on what the three-lab coordination has agreed, what a slowdown would mean in practice, or whether any government has moved to formalize it. O'Leary's talks with Canberra and Washington are ongoing. Koa is already shipping.
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