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- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday proposing a three-step plan to slow frontier AI development — third-party evaluators, industry safety coordination, and US-authoritarian coordination — and Anthropic has unilaterally committed to step one.
- Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview that an OpenAI IPO would be 'ill-advised' this year, pushing the anticipated offering to 2027 or later; CFO Sarah Friar had told employees just last month the company could go public in 2027 or sooner.
- Altman and Elon Musk both endorsed Amodei's proposal on X, with Altman saying OpenAI will commit to independent evaluators with employee-like access — an unusually unified stance among three competitors who rarely agree publicly.
- Musk's reversal follows years of public hostility toward Anthropic — he previously called it 'doomed to become misanthropic' — but his tone shifted after Anthropic announced a major compute deal with SpaceX in May.
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned this week, saying AI companies are 'gambling with our lives' and warning that AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'.
- OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned earlier this month that no AI company has 'solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.'
- Lawmakers in both parties are pushing new AI safeguards and demanding tech leaders testify after a rash of cyberattacks carried out without direct human control, while Anthropic public policy head Sarah Heck called for blocking advanced chip sales to China and a national frontier-model testing law.
Why it matters: The simultaneous public alignment of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Musk on slowing AI development shows CEO-level concern has moved from the margins to the center of corporate strategy — and Altman's explicit IPO delay demonstrates that worry is now reaching directly into the industry's biggest financial plans, with a historic offering pushed from this year to at least 2027.
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