Trump unveils voluntary AI safety pact, backs more data centers, and officially renames AI "Super Intelligence"

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What just happened? Donald Trump has announced that the CEOs of the biggest tech and AI companies in the US have signed a "morally binding" agreement to establish controls on artificial intelligence. The president used the announcement to reiterate his support for data centers, too, claiming tech companies will make communities "happy" about their construction. He also signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to "superintelligence."

After a meeting with executives that included SpaceX's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Trump announced the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities.

Under the agreement, which Trump posted to his Truth Social platform, companies agree to have robust internal processes and controls to ensure their technology behaves as intended, and that any issues are promptly...

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