Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. A voluntary slowdown agreed by four frontier labs over the weekend ran into two obstacles on Monday: a president who calls the premise a hoax, and an industry that can't name a single evaluator everyone would accept.Trump phoned into Jensen Huang's live interview at the All-In Summit and told several thousand executives on speakerphone that the robots will not be taking over — the second time in twelve hours he called AI risk a hoax.Axios lays out why a swift pause is unlikely: METR, floated by Anthropic as a third-party evaluator, has financial and personal ties to the labs it would audit, and Anthropic is expected to file this week to raise $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation.Stuart Russell argues safety requirements beat schedule changes, because a pause with no specified endpoint commits nobody to meeting a concrete goal.Philipp Schmid of Google DeepMind says agent harnesses should shrink as models improve — two markdown files and a mounted cloud sandbox in place of Python orchestration, with Cursor cited as replacing ~12,000 lines of TypeScript with ~200 lines of agent files.Vercel's data-science agent doubled its eval scores after the team threw out prescriptive tooling and gave the model bash plus file read/write inside a sandbox.PostHog's counterweight: giving a model command execution is a "malware starter pack", so detection and blocking stay deterministic and fail-closed, with the model used only as a triage adviser.SemiAnalysis measured Vera Rubin NVL72 at up to 7x Blackwell's tokens per megawatt, above Huang's own 3x claim — while the organizer who got Monterey Park to ban datacenters is now running for city council.Christine Lagarde sets a deliberately modest bar for European AI: models good enough for most tasks, running domestically, so being cut off stops working as leverage.
