Solana blockchain co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko sarcastically criticized a coordinated call by Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI leaders to slow advanced neural-network development over safety concerns. Responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's manifesto, "We Must Pace the Frontier," Yakovenko wrote, "Profitability at $1 trillion mcap," suggesting the companies' concern was driven by pressure to make their trillion-dollar valuations profitable. He later said he had instructed his Codex to use tokens more sparingly, mocking calls for an industry-wide pause. The response framed the debate as an infrastructure and capital problem, with rising chip and electricity costs increasing pressure on major AI companies to demonstrate profits. David Sacks, the former White House special adviser on AI and cryptocurrencies (AI and crypto czar), argued that laboratories genuinely concerned about their own systems' dangers could stop their work voluntarily instead of seeking broad regulation. He said strict rules could disadvantage startups and open-source projects, including Meta's work and the Hugging Face platform, while strengthening a duopoly between OpenAI and Anthropic. The discussion also noted that China would not be bound by a global AI truce, making restrictions on U.S. laboratories potentially amount to technological capitulation. Despite the warnings, markets were not pricing in panic at Monday's stock market open. The prevailing consensus was that slower frontier-model development would delay equipment procurement cycles rather than reduce investment in AI infrastructure.