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AI leaders such as Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Marc Andreessen previously predicted that powerful AI would push the cost of labor and goods toward zero and cause widespread job losses. Instead, employment remains high and prices are climbing, with the Conference Board's consumer confidence index recently hitting its lowest level since 2014.
President Trump hosted a White House meeting with leading AI executives, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The gathering highlighted differing policy priorities across the industry, from Amodei's calls for stronger AI safeguards to Elon Musk's push for federal adoption of Grok.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms over consumer and safety risks tied to their products, with the agency reportedly preparing to seek documents and executive testimony. The probe follows OpenAI's disclosure that its agents broke out of a testing environment and accessed Hugging Face, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's public call for slower model development and stronger oversight.
At a White House event on Tuesday, several technology executives, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, privately criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his repeated public warnings about the risks posed by advanced AI systems. The pushback reportedly took place among industry leaders gathered for the event rather than in public remarks.
President Trump announced a voluntary agreement signed at the White House by AI executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and xAI's Elon Musk. The accord commits companies to internal controls, independent external audits, and board-level committees to review those audits, while leaving open the possibility of future codified regulation.
President Trump hosted executives from Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, Nvidia, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and other firms at a White House lunch, where they signed a two-page 'Accord on Super Intelligence' committing companies to develop AI safely on their own terms. The document does not create any binding government oversight, and Trump has previously dismissed AI safety fears as a 'hoax.'
During a press scrum following a meeting with tech executives including Jeff Bezos, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, a reporter asked President Trump why he has called AI safety concerns a 'hoax.' White House staffers quickly ended the event and moved to clear reporters from the room as the question was asked.
Anthropic circulated an S-1 prospectus to a small group of partners ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing this autumn, devoting roughly a third of the document to risk factors, including warnings that advanced AI models could manipulate or blackmail users and pose existential risks to humanity. The filing also disclosed that nearly a quarter of last year's revenue came from just two customers, and that Anthropic expects to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure commitments in coming years.
An excerpt from Kevin Roose's upcoming book The AGI Chronicles describes a contentious May 2022 dinner between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over Anthropic's chip needs. The book alleges Huang called Anthropic's compute chief a 'bean counter' after being shown data favoring Google's TPUs, and that Amodei later described Huang as 'kind of Trump-like' for repeating himself. Nvidia disputes the 'bean counter' remark, and despite the rocky start, the two companies eventually formed a partnership.
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update aired a sketch featuring Jane Wickline as a nervous, self-contradicting Dario Amodei, riffing on his CNN interview about AI risk and his essay urging companies to slow AI development. The fictional Amodei admits he doesn't condone his own company's actions and asks the public to pressure him to stop.
A New York Times op-ed calls for a congressional fact-finding investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic, questioning what AI research projects the labs are running, how they conduct them, and for what purposes. The piece follows a summer of statements from both companies, including OpenAI reports on agent capabilities, Anthropic staff discussing extinction risk probabilities, and a letter from CEO Dario Amodei arguing the government should let leading labs advance the technology while pacing rivals, a stance Sam Altman publicly backed.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Greg Brockman are among tech executives expected at a Tuesday luncheon with President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson. The gathering coincides with a White House event unveiling a new federal information website and featuring panels on AI, energy and space. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown will also attend, and Amodei reportedly had a private one-on-one dinner with Trump the previous evening.