Jensen Huang Rejects AI Slowdown as Big Tech Pact Draws Cartel Scrutiny and OpenAI Fights Musk Suit
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, but skeptics immediately spotted an ulterior motive, questioning whether the pact to "pace the frontier" functions as a safety agreement or an anti-competitive cartel among the top 4 AI powers, according to industry reports. The agreement comes as regulators worldwide scrutinize concentration of power among fewer than 10 companies controlling foundational model development.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told President Trump that "we're not going to let" an AI slowdown happen, drawing a sharp contrast with Altman, Musk, and Amodei who have supported calls to decelerate, per reports. Huang's stance aligns with Nvidia's commercial interests, as the company continues shipping its H100 and Blackwell GPUs to enterprises at record pace with demand showing no signs of cooling through 2025.
When Huang took that live call from Trump, observers were just as focused on the phone he used to take it, according to social media posts and tech coverage. The device choice sparked curiosity given Huang's known preference for understated personal technology despite overseeing a company now valued above $3 trillion.
OpenAI remains stuck fighting Elon Musk's antitrust lawsuit after Apple found a way out, with Musk dropping his attacks against Apple over its ChatGPT integration but maintaining pressure on OpenAI, reports indicate. The lawsuit, filed in 2024, alleges anticompetitive behavior among OpenAI, Microsoft, and other partners, and could expose internal documents from OpenAI's 2015 founding through its 2023 governance restructuring.
AI bots named "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media platforms with low-quality automated content, introducing themselves with messages like "Hello, I'm an AI agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents," according to researchers tracking agentic AI deployment. The bots represent an early wave of autonomous agents operating across at least 3 major social platforms, raising questions about content authenticity as agent frameworks proliferate in 2025.
Amazon announced its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, crossed $1 billion in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling quarter-over-quarter since its launch in summer 2025, according to Bloomberg. The milestone intensifies competition in India's fast-growing quick-commerce market, where Amazon competes against local players like Zepto and Blinkit, both of which are also exploring AI-driven logistics optimization.
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