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Today — 30 September 2026Main stream

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

✇The Verge
By: Jess Weatherbed
30 September 2026 at 17:15
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg (R) looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing with AI executives following a meeting on artificial intelligence, outside the West Wing of the White House on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. The meeting comes as some have called for a slowdown in AI development amid rising safety concerns.
If you think this shot is amusing, check out the panicked look on Zuckerberg’s face when Trump calls on him to speak. | Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he's renamed the technology to "Super Intelligence." He brushed off concerns that the government wasn't enforcing enough AI guardrails because US companies are "dominating China."

And instead of ushering in federal AI regulations, Trump now has "the smartest people in the world watching over each other."

The people in question here are Goog …

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Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

✇The Verge
By: Jess Weatherbed
30 September 2026 at 12:24
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., from left, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, US President Donald Trump, Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), Nikesh Arora, chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., and Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting with tech executives on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The gathering follows a surge in concern about AI potentially posing a threat to humans.
Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images

We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential adviser David Sacks, and has been signed by Google's Sundar Pichai, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, XAI's Elon Musk, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Trump introduced the deal yesterday at the same time as ordering the US government to refer to AI as 'Super Intelligence' going for …

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Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules

✇Ars Technica
By: Barbara Moens， Financial Times
25 September 2026 at 13:45

The Trump administration is seeking to join Elon Musk’s appeal against a €120 million EU fine of the billionaire’s social media platform X, the latest escalation in the transatlantic clash over Brussels’ efforts to rein in US tech companies.

The US Department of Justice on Thursday filed an application to intervene in a pair of cases brought by Musk and X seeking annulment of the penalty, which will be heard at the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg.

“The European Commission inappropriately attempted to expand its regulatory authority to reach American companies not present or operating within its jurisdiction,” assistant attorney general Brett Shumate said.

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