Nadella wants an emergency brake

The Signal · 2026-10-12

The call for a kill switch came from inside the house. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said this weekend that AI models need an emergency brake, and urged a hard look at the trust architecture of advanced systems. That's the industry's largest vendor, not its critics.

Also today: Amazon says it will stop using nondisclosure agreements when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following Microsoft. Community backlash drove the change.

Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about seven billion dollars, weeks after Anthropic reportedly walked from a similar deal.

That's today's Signal. Thanks for watching.