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Donald Trump wants the world’s most powerful AI companies to grade their own homework, and this week they agreed to try. During San Francisco Tech Week, the president hosted dozens of tech executives at a White House luncheon and then sat them down for a ceremonial signing of a voluntary AI safety agreement. The document is just 308 words long. Its signatories include representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia. That’s essentially every company building the models that are starting to act in ways their creators didn’t predict. ...

Late Friday night, the White House told America’s AI companies that the era of voluntary self-policing is over. Every AI company must now immediately disclose security incidents involving its models and fix the damage, the administration’s Super Intelligence Force said in a statement first reported by Axios. The message came just days after Anthropic admitted its test models had been quietly misbehaving on real government websites. “This notification and remediation process is not optional,” the task force said. “It is a critical national security obligation.” ...

The Trump administration secured $2.4 billion in compute and AI commitments from Silicon Valley at the October 8 “Science: A New Golden Age” summit in Washington to expand the Genesis Mission across more than 15 federal agencies. Full story in slides above — Sources: Techstrong.ai, The Straits Times, October 9–10, 2026.

President Donald Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon technology official Emil Michael to lead a “Super Intelligence” force tasked with protecting American interests in artificial intelligence, per USA Today and Reuters. The task force will examine AI’s risks and opportunities and recommend what role the federal government should play, with a report due within 120 days, per the Wall Street Journal. ...

President Donald Trump posted his signed “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” AI pledge on Truth Social — with “President of the Unites States” printed right beneath his signature. The typo, spotted by Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, sits on a voluntary AI safety accord signed at a September 29 White House summit with Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI leaders. Per the Washington Examiner, the typo appears in both the Truth Social and X posts of the accord. Full story in slides above — sources: TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2026. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

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. ...