China's President Xi Jinping stated that both the U.S. and China are 'AI powers' with a shared responsibility to ensure technology remains under human control during a White House visit on September 24. President Donald Trump told Xi that he and China want to leave "super intelligence" exactly where it is, while explicitly rejecting any attempt to create a global regulator. Trump identified the Department of Justice as the primary guardrail for the technology and stated he expects no new international controls during the summit.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are forming an independent safety standards body called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI to fill the regulatory vacuum created by failed public-private frameworks. The group targets a launch by late 2026 or early 2027 to implement third party testing and set reporting rules for AI incidents. This independent push follows warnings from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei at the UN Security Council about existential risks, even as a leaked White House memo reportedly seeks to frame Amodei as the face of AI 'doomerism' for being out of step with Trump's agenda.