AI Industry Slowdown: Donald Trump and Mike Johnson Push Back

Prominent tech leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis have expressed support for pacing the development of frontier artificial intelligence to bolster safety frameworks. However, Donald Trump and US House Speaker Mike Johnson have pushed back against the proposals. They argue that slowing American AI advancement is an overreaction that risks ceding a competitive edge to global rivals such as China. Source: The Verge