AI Companies Begin to Align Around Slowdown

Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay draws public agreement from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, and Satya Nadella within hours, marking the closest thing yet to industry alignment on slowing down. NLW walks through the three-step plan, why embedded third-party evaluators are the one piece labs can act on immediately, and the pushback ranging from antitrust concerns to accusations of regulatory capture. Closing on why pacing might actually help enterprise adoption and what China's response signals ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.