Three news stories from the past 48 hours that matter to Dutch professionals: an unexpected proposal from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to deliberately slow AI development, a usage limit change that directly affects Claude Code users in their workflow, and the arrival of a local AI agent on Windows laptops with an RTX card.
Amodei: "We must pace the frontier"
On 12 September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier", a remarkable move from a CEO whose company also has a commercial interest in rapid AI growth. The essay sets out a three-stage plan:
- Stage 1 (unilateral): Anthropic invites independent evaluators who, as staff, gain access to internal training processes and safety assessments.
- Stage 2 (sector coordination): Labs in democratic countries agree on joint safety standards and limits on how fast capabilities may grow.
- Stage 3 (global): an international framework including China, with state-level verification mechanisms.
Amodei stresses that "pacing" does not mean halting model training, but slowing the rate of capability growth. Concretely, he says: autonomous AI agents could take over the internet within six months if there is no coordination.
No other lab has made a formal commitment on 14 September that matches Anthropic's step 1. Forbes and Reason confirm that the initiative so far comes only from Anthropic, although some sources report moral support from Sam Altman.
What does this mean for you as a professional? In the short term, nothing concrete: Claude's prices and release calendar are unchanged. In the medium term, the Amodei framing could influence how the EU AI Act is adjusted: the AI Act leaves room for self-regulation via codes of practice (Art. 95), and a lab that demonstrably admits external evaluators builds a stronger compliance file. See also our page on AI safety and GDPR for an overview of which models already offer which audit guarantees.
Claude Code limits: +25% on paper, -17% in practice
As of 14 September 2026, Anthropic has permanently raised the weekly usage limits for Claude Code by 25% above the level before May 2026. That sounds positive, but the context is crucial.
Since 13 May, temporary +50% promotional limits have been in place. These expired on 13 September. The successor (permanent +25%) therefore sits 17% below what users have grown used to in recent months.
| Baseline | Previous promotion | New permanent limit |
|---|---|---|
| 100 (pre-May) | 150 (50% temporary) | 125 (25% permanent) |
Anthropic does not publish absolute token counts; the figures are ratios. Practical check: use `/usage` in Claude Code or look at the `rate_limits.seven_day` values in the status line.
For teams that use Claude Code intensively for legal analysis, code review or document processing, this is a good moment to check whether a higher plan (Max or Enterprise) would ease the workflow. More background at DigitalApplied and Windows Report.
Perplexity Portable Computer: local AI agent on Windows
On 14 September, Perplexity launched its Portable Computer agent for Windows, in collaboration with NVIDIA. The agent carries out multi-step tasks (searching files, summarising data, scheduling recurring actions) but runs entirely locally on the device: no token costs, no data sent to external servers.
Requirements: an NVIDIA GeForce RTX or RTX PRO GPU with at least 24 GB of VRAM. In practice that means a high-end RTX 4090 or an RTX PRO Workstation; an average business laptop usually won't meet that threshold.
For those who do have the hardware, the GDPR implication is interesting: because inference happens locally, personal data never leaves the device. That can matter for sensitive workloads such as HR analysis or legal document management, where a data processing agreement with a cloud provider is harder to arrange. Available via the Microsoft Store for Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers; more details from Perplexity itself and NVIDIA.
Sources: Forbes – Amodei calls for slowdown (13 Sep) · Reason – AI slowdown (14 Sep) · Shattered.io – three steps explained · DigitalApplied – Claude Code limits · Perplexity – Portable Computer Windows · NVIDIA – local AI Perplexity