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AI leaders urge global AI slowdown; China rejects, Trump mocks

By Drooid · Sep 16, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

AI Leaders Push Slowdown

AI leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk call for a global AI development slowdown.
Amodei’s September 12 essay proposes external safety evaluators in frontier labs and shared standards among democratic nations.
Chinese officials label the proposal fear-mongering and reject it as a U.S. attempt to curb China’s AI progress.
President Donald Trump dismisses the slowdown as a hoax.

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Rajkumar Blames Yields

Lynx Equities analyst KC Rajkumar found no GPU, memory, flash or TSMC cancellations after Amodei’s essay.
Rajkumar attributes the AI-semiconductor sell-off to rising long-bond yields and US-China chip export tensions.
He expects a short-term bounce in NVDA, AMD and AVGO if the Federal Reserve’s hike is confirmed.
The September 16-17, 2026 FOMC decision is seen as the primary catalyst for near-term AI-semi price moves.

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Historical Context

After President Trump signed the 2018 NDAA barring Huawei and ZTE equipment, the Commerce Department added Huawei to the Entity List in May 2019 and, in August 2018, halted U.S. AI-chip sales to the firm. The ban spurred a U.S.–China chip rivalry; China then held 35 percent of global semiconductor sales in 2021, and the 2022 and 2024 export controls keep the tension high.

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AI Leaders Push Slowdown

AI leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk call for a global AI development slowdown.
Amodei’s September 12 essay proposes external safety evaluators in frontier labs and shared standards among democratic nations.
Chinese officials label the proposal fear-mongering and reject it as a U.S. attempt to curb China’s AI progress.
President Donald Trump dismisses the slowdown as a hoax.

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