Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build - July 31, 2026

Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build More than 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a public letter asking the US government to help build the technical and governance machinery needed to deliberately pace frontier AI development, and both OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it at the company level within hours. Chris and Laura dig into what the signatories are actually requesting, why unilateral restraint is func...