Musk Says Anthropic CEO Amodei Is Right to Urge Slowing AI Model Development

The notable signal is not the caution itself but who is voicing it: a founder competing in the same frontier-model race endorsing a rival's call to slow down. That alignment between xAI and Anthropic matters because safety rhetoric from a competitor is harder to dismiss as positioning, and it can shift how the wider field frames the trade-off between speed and restraint. Whether this convergence produces any coordinated practice, or remains rhetorical, is the open question.