Six AI companies sign a White House frontier-model safety accord
White House (Chuck Kennedy), via Wikimedia CommonsPublic domain
The White House presented two instruments on 29 September 2026: an industry accord on frontier-model safety and an executive order on vocabulary.
According to Nextgov/FCW, the accord was signed by President Trump, Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA. It asks each company to set up four layers of control:
- internal controls that monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment, in areas such as cybersecurity;
- a team that oversees those controls;
- partnerships with independent external auditors;
- an independent committee that reviews the reports of both.
Nextgov does not say whether the accord is binding or how it would be enforced, and its text has not been published alongside the order.
The order, “Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence”, tells federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in their official materials, to the extent the law permits. The new term covers the same technologies as the existing statutory definition in 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3). The President’s science adviser has 60 days to propose legislative language for a federal definition. Existing regulations, contracts and historical documents are exempt, and the order sets no safety requirements of its own.