By Mike Swift and Emma Whitford ( September 30, 2026, 00:06 GMT | Insight) -- President Donald Trump and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, xAI and Meta Platforms announced a voluntary frontier AI safety accord Tuesday that requires internal controls, independent audits and board oversight. Trump said the US would hew to self-regulation in order to not slow innovation, though the accord says the safety principles could be codified into law at some point. Trump also ordered the executive branch of the US government to use the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence."On a day when President Donald Trump brought the leaders of the largest US artificial intelligence companies to the White House to sign a voluntary self-regulatory accord on frontier AI safety, the president vowed that the US would avoid government regulation to protect the pace of innovation....
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