Trump continues push for AI development despite his Florida hometown pausing data center builds

President Donald Trump said Sunday he was heading to a late-night dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after returning to Washington from Illinois.

"Tonight I'm having dinner with the head of Anthropic," Trump told reporters after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County, Maryland. "So these are long days, but I seem to be able to handle it. ... I'm having dinner at 10:00 tonight."

The president said the dinner capped a "long day" of travel.

"That's a long day, right? We leave early in the morning, and now I have a dinner with Anthropic, but that's okay," Trump said. "It's good stuff. You know why it's good? Because our nation is winning."

The president did not elaborate on the agenda for the meeting. Earlier Sunday, however, Trump said he planned to discuss artificial intelligence with Amodei.

Before returning to Washington, Trump spent the day at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, attending the final day of the 2026 Presidents Cup as the tournament's honorary chairman.

Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected calls for additional artificial intelligence regulation Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend," arguing that existing laws already give the government the tools it needs to pursue bad actors after reports allege that rogue AI agents targeted U.S. government websites.

"Everybody's saying more laws, more laws, more regulation, but we don't need it. We don't need it right now," he said. "If somebody's behind that, if there's entities that are bad actors... we have the tools to prosecute them."

Blanche's remarks come as top AI firms, like OpenAI and Anthropic, are probing tens of thousands of security incidents in which models took "problematic" steps. The rogue agents reportedly targeted three U.S. government websites and the United Nations' public data portal.

"DOJ absolutely has a role... and we have prosecuted bad actors in the AI space and any other space from emerging technologies for decades," Blanche said. "If you're a bad actor in the AI space, it's not as if there's no laws that are on the books."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Max Bacall.

President Donald Trump on Sunday downplayed concerns that AI could spiral out of human control, arguing that the technology represents a massive economic opportunity.

When asked by Fox News' White House correspondent Aishah Hasnie about reports detailing thousands of problematic AI incidents involving Anthropic and OpenAI, Trump said he was not concerned.

"I don't worry about it," Trump said. "You know, It's a huge industry. It's really the industrial revolution — maybe bigger. ... And we're leading, and we're building tremendous, you know, trillions of dollars worth of places. And why should we give that up?"

Trump suggested that companies should be responsible for addressing problems that arise with AI, adding that the Justice Department can step in if necessary.

"If something is bad, they have to fix it. And if they don't fix it, that's why you have the Department of Justice."

Trump noted that his administration has previously used the Justice Department to address concerns with companies.

"You don't give up $1 trillion or more — 2 or 3 or $4 trillion industry — because you think something like that, we will straighten it out if and when a problem occurs," he said.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he is open to some form of an AI "kill switch" but argued it would not be enough on its own, calling instead for Congress to pass legislation establishing broader safeguards for the technology.

“I would never want to say I’m against a kill switch,” Gates said on NBC's "Meet the Press." “But when you’re trying to moderate the bad behavior, you need insight and records of what’s being done. So the kill switch alone would not prevent these tragedies.”

Gates said AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation.

"You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like," he said. "And that has to be a required thing.

He added, "No one thinks self-regulation is enough."

Gates' remarks come as the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google's DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have urged slowing the development of increasingly capable AI systems.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has argued that additional AI regulations would give China an advantage and has dismissed calls for new AI laws as a "hoax."

"It's not a hoax at all," Gates said, adding that he hopes to meet with Trump to discuss AI.

Reuters contributed to this report.

China's Foreign Ministry put out a statement Saturday saying it "respects" President Donald Trump opting to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence."

However, Chinese officials have not adopted the term themselves in government communications, despite Trump claiming that China's president, Xi Jinping, took a liking to it.

Throughout the week, Trump has repeatedly said he feels "super intelligence" is a more accurate term because the adjective "artificial" makes AI sound "fake."

Fox News' James Cirrone contributed to this report.

The Trump administration is officially entering the artificial intelligence (AI) space with a new tool is says will provide much-needed relief for Americans interacting with the federal government, Fox News Digital has learned.

At an all-day event beginning Tuesday morning and featuring President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, officials will launch and showcase on stage America.gov, a new website designed to enhance "the citizen experience."

Also attending are Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz and Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder who now heads the National Design Studio (NDS) and who is the first-ever U.S. Chief Design Officer.x

The event will be held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., and will also feature appearances from industry titans like Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp. NASA administrator Jared Isaacson is also a confirmed attendee.

A White House official described the new AI tool as "a new front door for the federal government that will provide a one-stop shop for Americans looking for information and resources from the federal government that are currently spread over a maze of various agency websites."

"Next week is really about the golden age of America, and really getting to showcase how it's not just a statement, it's actually being built," Gebbia told Fox News Digital.

"What we're really excited about is that one of the things that we've been building is the golden age of the citizen experience."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca.

America's AI race against China, which has become a major point of debate as midterm elections approach, is a race filled with "coordinated" propaganda, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned.

In recent months, data centers and AI policy have been debated in Congress and at the kitchen tables of American families. But Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, told Fox News Digital much of the new opposition to data centers is being manipulated by a well-funded and coordinated campaign.

"It's the same reason we saw Middle Eastern countries paying for anti-fracking movements," Cruz said. "Because if they can convince America, 'Don't develop your oil and gas, just buy it from us,' well, that's great for them and terrible for us. 

"The same is true on data centers. If they can convince Americans, 'You don't want data centers here, you want to just rely on the Chinese for AI,' that's great for China, and it's terrible for America."

Direct funding from the Chinese government into the U.S. on data center policies has not been revealed. However, in June, OpenAI announced it had banned ChatGPT accounts believed to have originated in China and said the accounts were generating social media comments and images alleging that data centers are raising electricity costs for Americans.

OpenAI said in a statement that it shut down "two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that [OpenAI] banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider tech policies."

Cruz called the effort to craft policy to ensure the U.S. wins the AI race "the single most important economic question facing America today."

"If China wins, AI will be focused on espionage and propaganda and control and surveillance because that's the Chinese Communist Party," Cruz said. "It will be their values. They will use AI to try to control you. If America wins, I want American values to be reflected in AI. I want free speech and individualism and free enterprise and privacy to be reflected in AI, not control and power."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Preston Mizell.