Trump meeting leaves AI safety debate unresolved

After a White House lunch with major tech leaders, the debate over AI safety appears unchanged. The companies involved continue to favor selfregulation, even as lawmakers and some industry figures push for stronger government oversight. President Donald Trump hosted executives from Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Palantir, SpaceX and other firms in Washington on Tuesday. The meeting followed weeks of growing concern about the risks of advanced AI systems and calls from researchers and policymakers for tighter safeguards. At the event, Trump and the executives signed a document outlining voluntary commitments on frontier AI development. The agreement calls for internal monitoring, outside evaluation and boardlevel oversight, but it is not a binding rule. Critics said the approach does little to address the safety concerns that have intensified across the industry.