OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend state dinner for Trump-Xi summit in Washington
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend a state dinner between US President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tensions rise over AI regulation in Washington and Silicon Valley. The dinner comes amid debate between AI safety advocates like Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who want to slow development of frontier models (advanced AI systems at the cutting edge of capability), and other tech leaders who support faster AI progress.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/openai-altman-trump-xi-summit.html
First tracked: September 16, 2026 at 08:00 PM
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