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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Race

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Morgan Stanley projects SpaceX’s revenue could reach $3.4 trillion in 2040. And senior U.S. officials have discussed the federal government taking stakes in AI companies. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, June 5th.

0:05.1

I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:07.8

Anthropic is calling for top labs in the AI race to slow down.

0:12.1

In a blog post, the startup behind the Claude Chatbot suggested that AI tools are advancing

0:16.7

so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention.

0:22.2

Some AI insiders say that threshold is a potential marker of danger and enormous societal

0:26.8

upheaval. Anthropic is proposing a global agreement on how to slow down the technology's

0:31.6

development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it. The company says it

0:36.9

plans to organize conversations with policymakers and researchers in the coming months.

0:42.0

We exclusively report bankers are projecting SpaceX revenue could reach $3.4 trillion by 2040,

0:48.6

as the rocket maker looks to support the $1.77 trillion valuation it's targeting when it goes public next week. That's according to

0:56.2

people familiar with the matter. The forecast comes from a Morgan Stanley analysis shared with top

1:01.4

investors Thursday. To get to that level of revenue, bankers from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley said

1:06.7

SpaceX's AI businesses would need to provide the bulk of revenue after this year and grow dramatically.

1:12.9

SpaceX posted revenue of $18.7 billion last year and a loss of nearly $5 billion.

1:18.7

The company is aiming to raise about $75 billion in its IPO, which would be a record.

1:24.1

And senior U.S. officials have discussed having the federal government take stakes in major

1:28.5

AI companies. People familiar with the matter say that comes after OpenAI chief executive

1:33.3

Sam Altman pitched the idea last year. Such a move would give the government a share in the potential

1:38.5

economic upside of the fast-evolving technology, grant AI companies a stamp of approval from those

1:44.0

in charge of regulating

1:44.9

their models, and potentially temper rising anxiety about the economic fallout from AI as several

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