S2. Ep36 - The AI Labs Are Hitting the Brakes — And It Won't Affect Your Business At All

AI Automations for Business · Sep 17, 2026 · 23m

Every major AI lab in America has agreed they should slow down frontier development. Even Musk's xAI signed up to it.

Sounds like a big deal, and for the labs it is. But Noel's take is that for the vast majority of business owners, it changes precisely nothing. The agents most of us are running aren't operating anywhere near the pinnacle of what AI can do. They're writing content, reviewing documents and handling repetitive work, and none of that is affected by OpenAI taking longer between releases.

What the slowdown does give you is a breather. Noel and Katie talk about using it to take…