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Sam Altman Told the White House He Supports Slowing AI Development. Here's Why That Matters for AI Stocks.

AI investing might be shifting from a race for speed to a race for scale and regulatory readiness, giving the biggest players an even stronger edge.

Sam Altman Told the White House He Supports Slowing AI Development. Here's Why That Matters for AI Stocks.

Published August 13, 2026 · Category: Finance

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In late July, Sam Altman went to Washington, D.C., to brief lawmakers on OpenAI's next-frontier model after one of its systems autonomously hacked another artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Hugging Face, and then pivoted to attack a customer's cloud account. Coming out of those meetings, he told reporters he supports slowing the pace of AI development, said he had seen the draft framework for implementing President Donald Trump's AI executive order, and confirmed he would meet with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to discuss how to vet newer AI models before release.

That is a long way from the early days of move-fast-and-ship models, and it reflects a real shift in how OpenAI thinks about risk.

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