Artificial Intelligence

Trump Wants AI Companies To Police Themselves. His FTC Isn't Waiting.

While the White House settles for a voluntary accord, the Federal Trade Commission is preparing subpoena-like demands and plans to compel testimony from frontier lab executives.

Tosin Akintola | 9.30.2026 4:45 PM

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America's leading AI companies are getting exactly what they asked for.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence—a voluntary, if vacuous, agreement to self-police and adhere to the same set of rules signed by the leaders of America's top AI companies. It outlines four layers of controls and audits he'd like every AI company to implement. The president told reporters he was "seeing tremendous self-policing," and that AI companies "understand that they have to self-police," according to CNN.

Trump has resisted calls to regulate AI companies even as public opinion of the........

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