META ▲ +0.4% - Meta Platforms, Inc. $META CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn’t think the AI industry needs a coordinated AI Pace pause. He says each lab should slow down on its own when safety requires it, and that alignment will increasingly become a competitive advantage because people won’t use AI agents they can’t trust. Meta already delayed Muse for several months to address safety and security issues without asking other labs to pause with it. Zuckerberg also said Meta has committed the significant majority of its compute to serving users rather than racing toward recursive AI self-improvement. Meta shares rose 0.4% after CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his view that the AI industry should rely on individual companies to self-regulate safety rather than implementing coordinated pauses across the sector. Zuckerberg emphasized that safety and alignment will become competitive advantages as users demand trustworthy AI agents, and he highlighted Meta's own track record of delaying products like Muse for safety improvements and allocating most of its compute resources to user-facing applications rather than AGI development. The modest gain suggests investors took the comments as reassuring about Meta's measured approach to AI development. 15-SEP-2026 07:13 PM ET