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Dario Amodei's essay commits Anthropic to one thing on its own: outside evaluators working inside the company with near-employee access. OpenAI said it would do the same. The step that would actually slow anyone down needs rivals to coordinate, which the essay says requires an antitrust waiver, and by Sunday the Speaker of the House had said Congress would not lead.
Sam Altman told staff OpenAI could pace frontier development alongside other labs, and OpenAI asked lawmakers whether that would breach antitrust law. The bipartisan bill that would answer it permits coordinated delays for loss-of-control risks — if not more than an insubstantial part of the reason is anything else. That week, OpenAI stopped selling its top tier for lack of compute.
Reported almost everywhere as a $1 billion fine, the figure is €890 million: €460m for preferencing its own services in Search and €430m for restricting how developers steer users to cheaper deals. The consequence that matters is what happens after day 60.