Sam Altman says Trump’s AI accord is a good start and more will be needed
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When major lab leaders call a presidential ‘superintelligence accord’ a starting point, they’re signaling openness to a multi-stage regulatory regime. Enterprises building on frontier models should assume today’s rules are provisional and bake regulatory agility—model switching, logging, and auditability—into their architectures.
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