Silicon Valley backs Trump's hands-off AI regulation at Tech Week

At Tech Week in San Francisco, VCs and AI founders praised the White House's light-touch approach to AI regulation. Trump signed a 308-word voluntary AI safety pact with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, SpaceXAI and Nvidia, but enforcement details remain unclear. Three OpenAI researchers said they were fired, and former safety lead David Robinson warned self-policing is no substitute for hard law.

• Trump signed a voluntary AI safety pact with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Nvidia
• The 308-word agreement calls for internal monitoring but lacks enforcement details
• $13.5B of the $1T US defense budget will go to autonomous systems and AI
• Three OpenAI researchers said they were fired over obstacles to safety work