Elon Musk, Sam Altman, And Dario Amodei All Agree… | The Brainstorm 149

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In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett dig into Dario Amodei’s open letter calling on frontier labs to pace themselves, a position Elon Musk and Sam Altman both signaled agreement with. Brett argues the real risk is not extinction but agentic swarms mangling digital infrastructure that was never hardened for them, and that slowing the public frontier may hand closed labs both a wider lead and a defense business to sell. Nick pushes back on the competitive motives behind a federal AI regulator. Then Nick reports back from six days inside Meta’s Muse, the agentic consumer app that found him over $1,000 in unclaimed money sitting in Michigan. Key Points From This Episode: • Why frontier labs want to pace the public frontier, and what that does to 99.99% cost declines • Whether an AI regulatory regime protects the public or locks in the incumbents • How Meta’s Muse is built for the consumer, not the prosumer, and why commerce take rates beat subscriptions If you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversation