White House Tells Tech CEOs: AI Safety Is 'Morally Binding'
Your AI apps may get safer, but you're still not paying for them.
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called "morally binding." Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as "super intelligence." Meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise. On the Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into this week's AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals.
- Tech CEOs signed a White House pledge to make AI safety 'morally binding'.
- Only 2% of consumers pay for AI, so businesses are the main source of profit.
- Free AI tools may soon get more ads, limits, or paid tiers.
Why It Matters
Your free AI apps might change as companies focus on business customers to make money.