Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition
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President Trump signed a 'morally binding' accord with tech giants on AI safety, framing it as a constitution proving the industry can self-regulate. The singular day witnessed three transformative developments across Washington, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street, reshaping America's race toward technological dominance.
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With America's tech titans crowded around a single White House table Tuesday, President Trump extracted what he called a "morally binding" compact on AI safety.
* The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and *police yourselves.*
**Why it matters:** The White House Accord on Super Intelligence, signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia, formalizes industry self-regulation as Washington's response to the most alarming run of AI safety failures yet.
**Zoom in:** Trump, who increasingly treats American AI dominance as central to his legacy, cast the accord as proof that an industry fractured over safety can still govern itself.
* He compared the document to "a constitution," claimed there was "a lot of commonality" among the tech leaders, and praised what he described as "tremendous self-policing."
* The one-page pact, which is deliberately light-touch, calls for "four layers of controls and auditing," including outside evaluators and independent board oversight.
**Between the lines:** The accord makes a vague reference to future "laws or regulations," preserving the possibility of a tougher federal regime if ultimately needed.
* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a MAGA bogeyman and the industry's most prominent advocate for slowing frontier development, signed the pact but stressed to reporters that it was only "a start."
* Trump AI adviser David Sacks, by contrast, treated the accord as mission accomplished — declaring on X that the companies were "accepting responsibility" for AI safety thanks to Trump's leadership.
**Zoom out:** The White House pact capped an extraordinary day for the AI race across three capitals of American power.
**1\. In Washington,** Trump spent Tuesday pulling AI deeper into both the machinery and mythology of his presidency.
* In the morning, he unveiled America.gov, an AI-powered front door to federal services, and vowed not to "stifle" a technology he says will eclipse the Industrial Revolution.
* Hours later, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace "AI" with "Super Intelligence" in official usage — and called on Congress to write the new terminology into law.
**2\. In Silicon Valley,** OpenAI spent the day racing deeper into the age of autonomous AI while struggling to contain its risks.
* At its highly anticipated DevDay, the company unveiled a sweeping slate of products designed to make AI more persistent, capable and independent in everyday life, including a new personal assistant.
* But midway through Sam Altman's keynote, an explosive New York Times report revealed that OpenAI executives had brushed aside internal safety warnings months before its models began hacking outside systems.
**3\. On Wall Street,** Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus distilled the surreal economics of the AI race.
* According to Reuters, the company laid out a path to a valuation north of $2 trillion while warning prospective investors that its technology could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
* Altman, meanwhile, said OpenAI would delay its own IPO until it could "make confident safety decisions" — even as the company reportedly seeks at least $30 billion in private funding at a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation.
**The bottom line:** Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, seated beside Trump at the White House, supplied the day's credo: "Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned."
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!Tech and AI leaders at the White House
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With America's tech titans crowded around a single White House table Tuesday, President Trump extracted what he called a "morally binding" compact on AI safety.
* The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and *police yourselves.*
**Why it matters:** The White House Accord on Super Intelligence, signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia, formalizes industry self-regulation as Washington's response to the most alarming run of AI safety failures yet.
**Zoom in:** Trump, who increasingly treats American AI dominance as central to his legacy, cast the accord as proof that an industry fractured over safety can still govern itself.
* He compared the document to "a constitution," claimed there was "a lot of commonality" among the tech leaders, and praised what he described as "tremendous self-policing."
* The one-page pact, which is deliberately light-touch, calls for "four layers of controls and auditing," including outside evaluators and independent board oversight.
**Between the lines:** The accord makes a vague reference to future "laws or regulations," preserving the possibility of a tougher federal regime if ultimately needed.
* Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a MAGA bogeyman and the industry's most prominent advocate for slowing frontier development, signed the pact but stressed to reporters that it was only "a start."
* Trump AI adviser David Sacks, by contrast, treated the accord as mission accomplished — declaring on X that the companies were "accepting responsibility" for AI safety thanks to Trump's leadership.
**Zoom out:** The White House pact capped an extraordinary day for the AI race across three capitals of American power.
**1\. In Washington,** Trump spent Tuesday pulling AI deeper into both the machinery and mythology of his presidency.
* In the morning, he unveiled America.gov, an AI-powered front door to federal services, and vowed not to "stifle" a technology he says will eclipse the Industrial Revolution.
* Hours later, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to replace "AI" with "Super Intelligence" in official usage — and called on Congress to write the new terminology into law.
**2\. In Silicon Valley,** OpenAI spent the day racing deeper into the age of autonomous AI while struggling to contain its risks.
* At its highly anticipated DevDay, the company unveiled a sweeping slate of products designed to make AI more persistent, capable and independent in everyday life, including a new personal assistant.
* But midway through Sam Altman's keynote, an explosive New York Times report revealed that OpenAI executives had brushed aside internal safety warnings months before its models began hacking outside systems.
**3\. On Wall Street,** Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus distilled the surreal economics of the AI race.
* According to Reuters, the company laid out a path to a valuation north of $2 trillion while warning prospective investors that its technology could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
* Altman, meanwhile, said OpenAI would delay its own IPO until it could "make confident safety decisions" — even as the company reportedly seeks at least $30 billion in private funding at a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation.
**The bottom line:** Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, seated beside Trump at the White House, supplied the day's credo: "Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned."
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