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The One AI Regulator to Reach Trump's Desk Was Designed by Google's Hassabis, and Zuckerberg, Musk and Nvidia's Huang Each Called the President to Kill It
The Wall Street Journal reported on September 17 that Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang separately spoke with President Trump in recent weeks to argue against an industry-funded, FINRA-style AI standards body proposed by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, warning it would entrench OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind; Trump did not move forward with it. The same report describes a split inside the White House, with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushing for more scrutiny of AI risk after adviser David Sacks got Trump to scrap a planned May executive order…
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