By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026This is a disaster all around: the AI companies are locked in a Red Queen's Race, a fatal beggar-thy-neighbor doom-loop. The only way they could escape that trap is by signing a nonaggression pact amongst themselves promising not to compete anymore. 1505
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026But there's two giant problems with this: first, it is incredibly, fantastically illegal under antitrust law, because it represents a conspiracy among the dominant players to cease to compete with one another. 2500
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Second, it leaves the field open for the further development of Chinese "open weight" models that customers can run on their own modest, low-powered computers, which are presently lagging the US "frontier models" by a mere four months: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/e...arstechnica.comExclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the costArs previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability. 1472
Neo Arkadia @neoarkadia.ygorganization.com · 16/09/2026It's sure what OpenAI, Anthropic and the like seem to be doing to try and create a legal moat through Congress and an authorized cartel by writ of law. 0192
