On 26 September 2026 OpenAI said it had paused training of its latest models and would resume only when it was confident it had additional safeguards, as the Guardian reports; openai.com could not be read (Cloudflare block).
(adjacent). The market resolves on the newsrooms of openai.com, anthropic.com and x.ai: YES if a company post dated 13 September to 13 October 2026 states that a named model or model version will be released later than a date the company had previously given, or that its training or release is paused for a stated period or until a stated condition is met; pledges to pace the frontier, evaluator-access schemes and the two-week reinforcement-learning slowdown OpenAI announced on 18 August do not count. Because openai.com and x.ai block automated readers, BBC and Guardian reports of the company post settle it, and silence by 23:59 PDT on 13 October resolves NO.
We found eight such calls since 2017. Each came from the head of a leading AI company and asked for a pause, a slowdown or new rules. For each one we checked whether the UK government gave a formal reply on gov.uk within 30 days: a statement or meeting note naming the call or its authors, or a new review, taskforce or consultation on the safety of advanced AI.