President Trump privately met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, after Altman requested the meeting. Their discussion focused mainly on AI and its growi

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President Trump privately met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, after Altman requested the meeting. Their discussion focused mainly on AI and its growing capabilities. Days later, Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei all called for slowing frontier AI development over safety concerns. Trump rejected new guardrails, arguing that regulation would hurt U.S. innovation and saying AI only needs “a strong and smart president.” Source: MS