AI SLOWDOWN 🔥:
> Dario Amodei: pace the frontier, not halt it — embedded evaluators, lab coordination, then a global deal.
> Elon, All-In: peer-review rival models before release. “Dario is right.”
> Sam Altman agrees, will match evaluators, and says pacing means slower, not stopped.
> Demis Hassabis: Amodei’s essay “points towards the right path,” details TBD, plus DeepMind’s standards-body plan.
> Satya Nadella welcomes deliberate pacing and embedded evaluators; superintelligence without human control is “not worth pursuing.”
> Alexandr Wang: alignment is fundamental and may gate scaling near the frontier, with no join on a coordinated slowdown.
> Trump rejects a slowdown: takeover talk is a “hoax,” control is a “strong and smart president,” and a “sick conspiracy” against AI only helps China.
> China MFA’s Guo Jiakun: slowdown talk is “fear-mongering”; confrontation “serves no one’s interest.”
MODEL FORECAST 🔥:
- Today? Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking slugs appeared on the Cloud quota page; not public.
- This week? Grok 4.7 should land near Opus 5.0, not 5.1; multimodal still needs work.
- This week? Testers say some Claude Code Opus 5 traffic is routing to Opus 5.2 — faster and less lazy, still unofficial.
- Soon: Grok 4.8 is a 2.5T model on a new C++ stack; training wraps this week, then RL.
- Not soon: Grok 4.9 is “probably Astra/Fable class”; Grok 5 is “maybe better than anything.”
PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Portable Computer is live on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs and 24GB+ VRAM, including local MCP and scheduled tasks.
OPENAI 🔥:
- Bought Glass Imaging for $300M, per WSJ — an ex-Apple smartphone-camera startup, after the earlier Opal webcam stake.
- Codex — got an official Arch Linux installer with pacman updates.
GOOGLE 🔥:
- Interactive Reports incoming on Gemini Notebook: embed mind maps, slide decks, flashcards, and quizzes.
- Gemini Live can run Deep Research in the background and ping you when the report is ready.
- API slug antigravity-preview-09-2026 spotted: hosted Linux sandbox agent, expected to be powered by Gemini 3.8 Flash.
P.S. All predictions in the Model Forecast section are unconfirmed and may change anytime.
P.S.S. We've used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.