On a September morning in 2026, a call for restraint from the frontier of artificial intelligence sent markets in opposite directions — punishing those who had bet on acceleration and rewarding those who had long built their business on patience and optimization. Anthropic's Dario Amodei, joined by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, argued that the pace of AI development had outrun humanity's capacity to govern it wisely. In the strange calculus of markets, caution became a tailwind for Indian IT services firms, whose measured, client-centered model suddenly looked less like a limitation and more like