Overview
- The White House hosted top AI executives and on Sept. 29 President Donald Trump and leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, X and Nvidia signed a one-page voluntary security pact.
- The pact requires external audits, board-level oversight, internal controls on model capabilities, and dedicated teams to check that safeguards work.
- President Trump told TIME that near-term regulation could "take you out of the business" and he has pushed for rapid expansion of data centers, chips and power capacity to keep U.S. advantage while steering policy toward industry-led controls.
- The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other firms, using consumer-protection authorities to seek documents and testimony about risks from autonomous AI systems.
- The result is a hybrid approach that pairs nonbinding company commitments with selective agency enforcement, leaving open whether the voluntary work will be codified into law or prove effective at holding firms to account.