Trump hosts Nvidia, Anthropic and Palantir chiefs at White House AI lunch
The lunch with House Speaker Mike Johnson follows OpenAI shelving GPT-6.1 Astra and Nvidia's rogue-agent platform. Amodei has proposed slowing AI development, and Trump has rejected that.
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted a lunch at the White House on Tuesday with AI industry leaders to discuss the risks of the technology, Bloomberg reported. Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Palantir's Alex Karp and Anthropic were on the guest list, with OpenAI president Greg Brockman also expected, Bloomberg said.
Reports differ on who spoke for Anthropic. Bloomberg named chief executive Dario Amodei, while Straight Arrow News listed co-founder Tom Brown and also named Google's Sundar Pichai and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg among the attendees. The final list is not confirmed.
The meeting comes after a run of agent incidents. OpenAI has shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after safety evaluations, according to Bloomberg and the New York Times as relayed by Engadget, and Nvidia this week launched a platform it says can quarantine rogue agents within milliseconds.
Straight Arrow News described the aim as finding the "right balance" between innovation and regulation. Johnson said, "we want to continue the innovation ... but we want to make sure that it's being done in a safe way," and has opposed halting AI development, the outlet reported.
Amodei has pushed for slower development and stronger safeguards, while Trump has rejected slowdowns and previously called safety concerns a "hoax", Straight Arrow News said. It reported that Amodei dined privately with Trump on Sunday. No readout of the lunch had been published when this was filed.