Trump held a private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei; Trump publicly praised Amodei afterward
Following·Day 4·first covered 30 Sep 2026·2 sources
Vance Rebukes AI Labs for Seeking Government Regulation
The gist
Vance's remarks put the White House at odds with a strategy some frontier AI labs have pursued of inviting federal oversight. The concurrent Trump-Amodei dinner signals that at least one major lab has a direct line to the executive, even as the administration's public posture pushes back on industry-led calls for regulation.
The full picture
US Vice President JD Vance publicly criticized frontier AI companies for lobbying the government to regulate them while simultaneously warning about the dangers of their own technology. Vance argued that companies should take personal responsibility for building safe products rather than delegating that responsibility to regulators, and he mocked the posture using a cookie analogy. Separately, President Trump held a private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei following the US-China summit, after which Trump publicly praised Amodei, describing him as 'fantastic' and saying 'we all agree' on AI direction. Amodei also met separately with Senate Majority Leader Thune.
How it developed
Sources
Rohan Paul Twitter
Zvi's AI Roundups
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