Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliances

Summary

Elon Musk urged AI companies to test each other's new models for safety issues before release, which he prefers to heavy government regulation. The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in advising President Trump to oppose an industry-funded regulator. The story frames this as part of Musk's long pattern of voicing AI safety fears while building his own AI businesses and resisting regulation.

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