Mark Zuckerberg wrote the AI safety accord President Trump signed this week, and two of his biggest rivals skipped it.
Zuckerberg drafted the accord and circulated it to other tech leaders before Tuesday's signing, according to Semafor and Politico. Satya Nadella showed up for the White House lunch where executives hashed out the deal, but Microsoft never signed on. Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos was in the room too, yet Amazon also declined to put its name on the pact. The reporting does not say why either company held back.
A Meta-authored AI framework earning a presidential signature marks an unusual role reversal, with industry writing policy that Washington signs rather than the other way around. That two of Zuckerberg's biggest competitors sat out suggests the appearance of consensus at that lunch was thinner than the photo op suggested.
Showing up for lunch and signing the check are, it turns out, two different commitments.