What Ben Thompson thinks about ambition

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1. 25 Sept 2026

   Our readingFrontier AI labs have a strategic incentive to pace their capability releases so society has time to address the overhangs caused by model advancement.

   Their wordsPacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for the frontier labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement.

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