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14 September 2026
AI’s loudest thread this week wasn’t a new model so much as a new pace policy. Anthropic cofounders Dario Amodei and Jack Clark turned the spotlight back on how frontier labs should proceed, with Amodei publishing a nearly 4,000-word call to “pace the frontier” and Clark arguing that shutdown mechanisms may need to be mandatory—and third-party checkable—rather than left to each lab’s internal playbook. The debate spilled into public endorsements and counterarguments: big names including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and even Elon Musk discussed slowing development under a plan involving third-party auditors, while critics warned it could become a de facto barrier to competitors or weaken open-source access.
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