Trump rejects the AI slowdown: "whoever wins AI, wins"
On September 13, 2026, President Trump told reporters at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland that warnings about AI are overstated, blamed "negative forces" for raising them, and said the US leads China in AI and intends to keep it that way, summing it up as "whoever wins AI, wins." A day earlier, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had published an essay calling for AI companies and governments to pace AI development, with OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk agreeing. David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, told the labs on X to "go ahead and pace the frontier" without demanding regulation in return, and Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez called the plan "a cartel by any other name."