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Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliances
Friday, September 18, 2026
Elon Musk met with Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, the co-founders of Anthropic, and with Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, during a week in which the three men discussed artificial intelligence safety. President Trump contradicted Musk's position on unspecified policy matters, and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang disagreed with Musk on a separate AI-related topic. The specifics of their disagreements were not detailed in available reports.
