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Per Hacker News, OpenAI's Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council next week, taking AI governance straight to the top security table.
Take: Altman is moving the fight from Silicon Valley to the Security Council, positioning OpenAI as the default interlocutor for global AI rules. Everyone else just got a seat behind him.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS Sunday Morning there's a "0% chance" AI ends the world by 2030, calling the doomsday narratives overblown.
Take: The guy selling the shovels says the mine can't collapse. Markets will quote him, and regulators will happily cite him to justify doing nothing.
Jensen Huang said those warning of an AI apocalypse "have ulterior reasons," aiming squarely at peers and researchers.
Take: Framing safety hawks as a self-interested bloc is Huang's bluntest defense of Nvidia's regulatory stance. It burns bridges with labs and buys goodwill in Washington.
Huang said he expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year as this year, while downplaying AI slowdown calls.
Take: Doubling guidance at peak bubble chatter is a direct dare to the shorts. Either he sees the orders or he's juicing sentiment — watch which.
Huang suggested AI labs' recent regulation push is mainly aimed at sidestepping existing rules, urging policymakers to enforce what's already on the books.
Take: It's the sharpest teardown of peers asking for "new rules": you don't want safety, you want exemptions. Regulators will recalculate.
Huang said existing regulations suffice to keep AI both safe and profitable, and accused doomsday-warning AI CEOs of having ulterior reasons.
Take: Saying "already enough" is a shield against new rules for the whole industry. Profitability smuggled into the safety sentence — the stance couldn't be clearer.
Trump posted on Truth Social that he wants an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force," saying his administration "will not in any way" pump the brakes.
Take: With everyone else calling for a slowdown, the White House names it like a military unit and floors it. Green light for industry, slap for safety hawks.
Trump said it's time to rebrand AI with a new name and is creating an AI Force, claiming without evidence the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Take: Rebranding is agenda-setting at its crudest — turning a tech fight into a branding war. Whoever wears the old label loses the first round.