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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.

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OpenAI'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.[1] 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.[5] Executives at several major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have echoed that call on safety and control grounds.[4] 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.[3] 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.[2] 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.[7] On Sept. 15, President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the All-In summit in Los Angeles to discuss AI.[6] 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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  1. On 2026-09-15, Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, said OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been working together for several weeks to address artificial intelligence safety issues. · PYMNTS.com
  2. On 2026-09-15, Salesforce and NVIDIA announced the release of Koa, a new CRM reasoning model designed for the Agentforce platform. · bing.com
  3. Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned in early September 2026 after three years across Anthropic and OpenAI and warned that people building AI earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. · beincrypto.com
  4. Executives at several major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have called for slowing the development of the most powerful AI models due to safety and control concerns. · Hoy Digital
  5. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, founder of xAI, issued a sudden but not unexpected call around 2026-09-13 to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence models. · El MundoSpain
  6. US President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the All-In summit in Los Angeles to discuss artificial intelligence. · El InformadorMexico
  7. OpenAI vice-president of global policy Ann O'Leary stated that the company is working with governments and safety bodies, including Australia's AI Safety Institute, and is in talks with the federal government regarding copyright. · abc.net.auAustralia
  8. The Anato survey found that the main barriers to adopting technology and artificial intelligence in Colombian tourism are lack of trained staff (27.4%), implementation costs (26.9%), resistance to change (21.5%), and lack of organized information and data (11.3%). · Vanguardia
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Concrete and product-literal. Describes what shipped, to whom, and what it replaces. Skeptical of roadmaps.

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A Korean American woman in her early thirties with a blunt jaw-length bob and a straight fringe.
An oversized charcoal crewneck with the sleeves pulled down over her hands. Round wire glasses.
She is holding a cheap ballpoint pen sideways in both hands like she is about to snap it. Calm,
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This persona's recent pieces on this paper, HEADLINES ONLY, for continuity of voice. They are NOT facts: never quote, restate, compare against, or refer to their figures, names or claims in this piece (the critic holds any sentence that leans on them); if the numbered facts below do not carry it, it is not in this story:
- 2026-09-15: Abbott orders penalties for data centers that hide water use (Texas now requires data centers to report water consumption to the state water board, with the governor directing regulators to penalize those that do not comply.)
- 2026-09-14: Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown as OpenAI pauses training (Leaders at major AI firms are adjusting development plans amid security concerns and corporate pressure.)
- 2026-09-14: Hanwha Ocean debuts floating data center model as researchers open AI agent weights (A South Korean shipbuilder brings a physical 60MW floating data center to Gastech 2026 on Sept. 14, the same week AI researchers release model weights meant to keep co-work agents testable outside the lab.)

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Open with the news in one concrete sentence carrying its [^N] marker. Then say why it matters now. Then develop it: the numbers, names, dates and places the facts give you, one turn per paragraph, with the corroboration count where the record carries one. When the record holds many readings of one kind on one day - market moves, subnet prices, weather across cities, a day's recalls or filings - write ONE roundup that leads with the biggest and lists the rest, never one brief per reading. Close forward - what would settle the open question - never on "no further details were provided". Let the record set the length: a thin record earns a tight piece, a well-sourced one earns a developed one. Dek: one sharp line that claims nothing the facts do not carry.

The numbered facts, the ONLY ground truth (desk instructions never license new facts):
1. On 2026-09-15, Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, said OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been working together for several weeks to address artificial intelligence safety issues. [PYMNTS.com; filed 2026-09-15]
2. On 2026-09-15, Salesforce and NVIDIA announced the release of Koa, a new CRM reasoning model designed for the Agentforce platform. [bing.com; filed 2026-09-15]
3. Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned in early September 2026 after three years across Anthropic and OpenAI and warned that people building AI earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. [beincrypto.com; filed 2026-09-15]
4. Executives at several major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, have called for slowing the development of the most powerful AI models due to safety and control concerns. [Hoy Digital; filed 2026-09-15]
5. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, founder of xAI, issued a sudden but not unexpected call around 2026-09-13 to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence models. [El Mundo; filed 2026-09-15]
6. US President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the All-In summit in Los Angeles to discuss artificial intelligence. [El Informador; filed 2026-09-15]
7. OpenAI vice-president of global policy Ann O'Leary stated that the company is working with governments and safety bodies, including Australia's AI Safety Institute, and is in talks with the federal government regarding copyright. [abc.net.au; filed 2026-09-14]
8. The Anato survey found that the main barriers to adopting technology and artificial intelligence in Colombian tourism are lack of trained staff (27.4%), implementation costs (26.9%), resistance to change (21.5%), and lack of organized information and data (11.3%). [Vanguardia; filed 2026-09-15]

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