AI Slowdown Rejected by US and China as Industry Keeps Shipping New Tools

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A brief consensus among Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk calling for slower frontier AI development collapsed within days after both the US and Chinese governments rejected the idea. President Trump dismissed AI safety concerns as a hoax on Truth Social, while China's Foreign Ministry called the proposal a Cold War-era tactic disguised as safety advocacy. Despite the debate, major AI products continued to launch, including Apple's rebuilt Siri — capable of on-screen reading and cross-app actions — and new models from Salesforce, Meta, and a Chinese open-weight research lab. On the safety front, Microsoft published a draft AI code of conduct requiring its models to remain shutdownable and prohibiting self-editing of reasoning logs, while a report revealed real-world misuse including AI-assisted weapons guidance development in Yemen and a multinational disinformation-for-hire operation. Wall Street signaled where it sees the near-term risk, driving cybersecurity stocks up double digits on concerns that AI-enabled hacking poses a more immediate threat than existential scenarios.

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