SITUATION EXPLAINED: 1,100+ AI employees from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are asking the US government to help develop the tools to pace AI, if needed. • "Pacing the Frontier" isn't a pause letter, it asks the US government to support an international effort building the tools to deliberately pace automated AI development specifically, not open source, not diffusion, not capabilities broadly • The trigger: leading labs believe they're close to automating AI research itself, Sam…