Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

<figure> <img alt="Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., from left, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, US President Donald Trump, Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), Nikesh Arora, chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., and Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting with tech executives on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. The gathering follows a surge in concern about AI potentially posing a threat to humans. " data-caption="Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/gettyimages-2297269621.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">We now have the full details of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/29/trump-ai-deal-tech-ceos-superintelligence">"morally binding" AI safety deal</a> announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, was <a href="https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2105060520327786914">shared online</a> by tech founder and presidential advisor David Sacks, and has been signed by Google's Sundar Pichai, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, XAI's Elon Musk, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1002584/trump-us-ai-safety-deal-self-regulation-tech-execs">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>