Trump tells Silicon Valley's safety wing to get lost

Standing in Doonbeg the day after Amodei's slowdown essay landed, Trump dismissed existential AI risk as things that won't happen and said whoever wins the AI race against China wins full stop, as the Washington Post reported. He offered no policy beyond vague talk of guardrails, which tells the industry precisely what it needs to know: no federal pacing regime is coming from this White House. That leaves Anthropic's push for government-enforced slowdowns and third-party evaluators as a voluntary, unilateral bet, one competitors have no obligation to match. OpenAI's Altman has floated similar caution; Musk has too. None of it moves policy while the president is calling regulation a competitiveness risk rather than a safety necessity.