Trump responds for the first time to the AI storm:
"Slowing down the AI race now will give China an opening to beat us in the most important technological race of the future."
It seems that the dangers surrounding the issue of artificial intelligence are less interesting to Trump than his interest in leading the artificial intelligence race against China.
In recent hours, Trump has rejected calls from technology company executives to slow down the artificial intelligence race:
"We are leading China in artificial intelligence, and frankly, I want to keep it that way.
We can put up barriers, we can do things about it, but I think there's a lot of talk raising bad things that won't happen: whoever wins the artificial intelligence race wins the battle for the future."
Trump's statements come just one day after the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all agreed that the artificial intelligence industry needs to "slow down development" amid growing safety concerns...
Meanwhile, Sam Altman says he does not intend to take OpenAI public this year due to safety concerns.
But on the other hand, hours after the statements by Anthropic's CEO, which caused a global stir regarding artificial intelligence, Anthropic is choosing the Nasdaq for an IPO valued at $2 trillion, aiming for an offering next month.
Some estimates valued Anthropic's IPO at $2 trillion.
It sounds very strange that a few hours before the IPO, arguments emerge from Anthropic's CEO and founder to "slow down" artificial intelligence, Sam Altman chooses not to go public, and hours later, an IPO next month (?)
Very strange.
As for us, currently we mainly see regulatory and safety concerns, and not a change in demand for AI itself,
We will closely follow this storm,
because AI has become one of the main growth engines of the American stock market, and if we see a real slowdown on the issue, that will be a different story.
Today at 1:00 AM, futures contracts will open, and we will see how the market reacts to all of this.