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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested a private meeting with President Trump backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, where the two discussed artificial intelligence and its rapidly growing power, MS NOW reports. The meeting comes as Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have backed calls to slow the development of frontier AI and strengthen safeguards amid concerns that capabilities are advancing too quickly. Trump has pushed back against additional restrictions, arguing that slowing U.S. development could jeopardize America’s technological advantage over China.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman requested a private meeting with President Trump backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, where the two discussed artificial intelligence and its rapidly growing power, MS NOW reports. The meeting comes as Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have backed calls to slow the development of frontier AI and strengthen safeguards amid concerns that capabilities are advancing too quickly. Trump has pushed back against additional restrictions, arguing that slowing U.S. development could jeopardize America’s technological advantage over China.

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