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Dreamforce safety debate collides with buy-side reality: older AI models are “enough”
Sep 18, 2026SOURCE: cnbc.com
SO WHAT
If buyers treat newer models as optional, the window narrows for steering; power shifts toward whoever controls deployment, not innovation.
At Salesforce’s mega-conference, business leaders said last year’s models already deliver sufficient value. The signal suggests the inversion is moving from research theater to procurement constraints—fast.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.