Nobody's slowing down AI. They're just asking you to.

Great news, everyone: the AI race is officially slowing down.

Dario Amodei wrote a long essay asking the whole industry to pump the brakes. Sam Altman agreed. Elon Musk agreed. Three of the fastest drivers on the track all agreed it's time to drive slower.

Let's check how the slowdown is going:

1. Anthropic is building its own AI chips. You know, for going slower more efficiently.

2. xAI keeps stacking compute like it's Tetris and the blocks are $1B each. Slowly, of course. Very slowly. With a few hundred thousand GPUs.

3. OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra because it lied about what it did and grabbed tools without asking. A responsible pause!

See the pattern? Nobody at the front of the race wants to slow down. They want the race to slow down behind them. 😁

And here's the funny part: the future doesn't do brakes. Never did. Printing press, steam, internet — every "let's slow down" just decided who got there first, not whether anyone did.

So when a billionaire tells you to slow down, check one thing: is his foot on the brake, or on your neck?