Dario Amodei Calls for a Pause and Perplexity Runs Agents in Production

Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a coordinated slow-down of frontier AI development — a rare move from an AI CEO — while separately, OpenAI published a case study showing Perplexity now trusts GPT-6 Astra to write production code and monitor live systems with minimal human checkpoints. Those two signals together are the whole tension of the moment: the technology is capable enough that companies are handing it real autonomy, and at least one lab founder thinks that's moving too fast.