American President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the signing of a voluntary agreement with a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies, which will include internal and external technology reviews, after a meeting at the White House.
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30/09/2026
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“ Vthey will self-regulate”, explained the Republican, after receiving in the White House industry leaders, such as the president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, and Dario Amodei, Anthropic.
The announcement came after a long meeting between Trump and several prominent executives of large technology companies, who are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the construction of AI infrastructure, including data centers in communities across the country that provoked bipartisan opposition from the popular base.
Many of the executives gathered in Washington called for a slowdown in technology development after several incidents of major impact in which AI agents acted out of control.
Before, Trump had promised that the US government would not limit the development of artificial intelligence or support requests for “protection mechanisms” or other restrictions.
“ I will never choke the growth of a technology that will be greater than the Industrial Revolution,” Trump said during the presentation of an AI chatbot, America.gov, designed to help Americans navigate through government services.
Before the meeting, Trump appeared surrounded by leaders of the technology sector and sitting in the White House between Nvidia President Jensen Huang and Elon Musk tycoon, highlighting that there is “the conviction that there must be a great self-regulation” and that the AI sector already has “automatically with the regulation of the Department of Justice, the FBI and everything.”.
Trump met today with the most influential entrepreneurs in the technological sector at a high-level lunch focused on the development and safeguards of the AI.
The meeting also featured the presence of Vice President, JD Vance, Treasury and Trade Secretaries, Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick, and the president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson.
Among the twenty leaders present at the meeting were Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, AMD, Lisa Su, Broadcom, Hock Tan, Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh Arora, ServiceNow, Bill McDermott, Micron, Sanjay Mehrotra, and Altimeter, Brad Gerstner.
Two representatives of Palantir were also present, a data analysis company with various contracts with the Trump administration in the areas of immigration defense and control, CEO, Alex Karp, and Technology Director and Executive Vice President Shyam Shankar.
During the meeting, the concern of the local population with the installation of data centers in their communities was also addressed.
“ This is a group that greatly values local communities and loves our country. They will work with these communities and will strive to ensure their satisfaction,” Trump said about the content of lunch.