Tech Brew Ride Home · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Over 1100 AI employees, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed an open letter calling for the US government to help pace AI development. This comes as investors grow nervous about ballooning AI capital expenditures and potential market volatility, with some experts predicting an overbuild of data centers and a shakeout of AI companies.
“Today's going to be an odd day because I want to sort of devote the whole episode to contextualizing the state of the AI race at this moment through a few different angles.”
“The petition urges the US to support an international effort that would help set the pace for building more sophisticated AI systems, if needed.”
“All of them think we will likely overbuild data centers during this period of exuberance.”