Dario says pace the frontier, Sam and Elon agree, Sacks says just do it, Armin dissents

One story ate the day. Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier , a three-step plan to slow capabilities work that starts with Anthropic unilaterally giving third-party evaluators badges, laptops and employee-level access, and within hours Sam Altman said OpenAI would do the same, Elon Musk posted "Dario is right", and Karpathy said he hopes the industry can make it happen. Then the pushback arrived: David Sacks told the two labs to go ahead and slow down but stop asking for antitrust waivers and calling METR independent, Armin Ronacher wrote that open weights are the real pacing mechanism and the labs are the ones causing the inciden