When Greg Abel took the podium at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha on Saturday, every analyst in the room was watching for the same thing: whether Warren Buffett's successor would use the AI boom to mark his own territory, or stay inside the lines his predecessor drew. 

Abel answered the question directly and his answer sounded unmistakably like Buffett.

Abel's statement wasn't just a technology policy. It was a........

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