In a notably candid moment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that the company is open to easing its pace on frontier AI development — a marked shift in tone from an organization that has spent the last few years defined by speed and rapid model releases. What Altman Actually Said According to internal reports, Altman stopped short of committing to a fixed timeline or a technical freeze. Instead, he framed the shift around trust: frontier labs, he argued, need to dem