Anthropic CEO calls for AI race slowdown; Musk and Altman agree

Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk agree that frontier AI development may need to slow down as systems become capable of helping build their own successors. The rare alignment among three leaders who often disagree signals growing concern inside the industry about the pace of autonomous AI capability.

Separately, Nigel Farage's Reform UK party received $97 million in donations from two crypto billionaires within 24 hours — the largest individual political donations in U.K. history. The combined haul sharply scales up crypto industry backing for the party.