More than 1,100 employees of the world’s leading AI labs have signed a public statement asking Washington to help build the tools needed to deliberately slow frontier AI development, and within hours OpenAI and Anthropic each endorsed it as companies. The request lands four days before the Trump administration’s own deadline for producing a frontier-model security framework. The statement, published on July 28, 2026 under the title Pacing the Frontier, turns on one sentence: “We request that…