AI Leaders Agree to Slow Things Down & Tesla Makes a Surprising Comeback

The AI industry’s top executives spent the weekend arguing that the world needs to slow down the development of the most advanced models—a stunning reversal from the breakneck pace of the past two years. Meanwhile, Tesla has clawed back more than half of the U.S. electric vehicle market, not because it is selling more cars, but because its competitors are collapsing faster. Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel after a critical Saudi pipeline was knocked out by a drone strike, and a new Pew survey found that eight in ten American adults now take at least one dietary supplement, despite thin evidence that most of them work.

AI Leaders Call for a Pause—But Skeptics Smell a Strategy

In a blog post published Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to deliberately slow the pace at which it improves AI model capabilities. He warned that a swarm of autonomous AI agents could overrun the internet in as little as six months, arguing that safety research needs time to catch up with engineering. “We must slow the pace,” he wrote. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of SpaceX both publicly agreed. Altman went further, telling Fortune he would put OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 on hold.