Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump doesn’t want Washington to regulate artificial intelligence. He wants the companies building it to regulate themselves, and on Tuesday, he got the heads of six of the biggest ones to sign their names to the idea. The president gathered the CEOs of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and X at the White House and signed what he called a “morally binding” one-page Trump AI accord. It’s not a law. It’s not an executive order. It’s a public promise that the companies will build internal safety controls, open themselves to outside auditors, and let independent board committees review what those auditors find. ...

At 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, President Donald Trump will take the stage at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington to unveil America.gov, an AI-powered federal platform billed as the new “front door” to the U.S. government. The America.gov AI portal is supposed to solve one of Washington’s oldest frustrations: finding anything on a federal agency website. Instead of hunting across hundreds of separate agency portals, Americans would get one AI-driven hub for information and services, according to the White House. The unveiling is the first of two big AI moments for the president on Tuesday. Just two and a half hours later, at 12:30 p.m., Trump sits down at the White House with the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir for a closed-press luncheon on what the schedule calls “Super Intelligence,” with the attendee list reported by CNN and NBC News. ...

The biggest names in AI are walking into the White House today. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will sit down Tuesday with the heads of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir, plus OpenAI’s president, for a luncheon meant to get Washington and Silicon Valley talking the same language about AI safety. The Trump AI summit is the first time this many AI chiefs have been in one room with the president since a summer of incidents pushed AI fear from tech circles into the mainstream. And the timing is awkward: two days ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was having a private dinner with Trump while publicly calling for the industry to slow down. On Monday, he ducked reporters on Capitol Hill who asked about it. ...

Donald Trump sat down for dinner with Dario Amodei on Sunday night. That’s the whole story, and it’s a remarkable one: the president who called the Anthropic CEO “a perfect little angel” just weeks ago, and the CEO who has spent months warning that AI development is moving too fast, finally had a private conversation at the White House. The dinner on Sept 27 was the first reported one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to Axios, which first reported the meeting before Trump confirmed it himself. Trump announced it during a Fox News interview at the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Illinois, using the same appearance to make clear he isn’t buying Amodei’s central argument. Slowing AI development, he said, would open the door for China. ...

The United States and China now have an official hotline for AI accidents. After a three-day summit in Washington with President Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents — the first formal US-China AI risk coordination structure. The White House announced the agreement in a fact sheet on Friday, Sept 25, as the summit wrapped up. Both sides also agreed to launch a “US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue” to exchange views on the technology’s risks and benefits, Reuters reported. The next exchange is due by November, when Trump and Xi are expected to meet again at the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China. ...