Trump Rejects AI Slowdown Calls Ahead of September 24 Xi Talks, Bitcoin (BTC) in Focus

Trump Rejects Pause as Safety Debate Becomes a China Race

President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected calls from the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow frontier model development, arguing that any pause would hand China the lead in a technology race the United States must win. The remarks landed one day after the three executives jointly urged a coordinated slowdown — a request that carries no binding force, since no federal statute obliges any laboratory to comply. House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking on CNN's State of the Union, framed the allocation of responsibility as settled: Congress has already set the guardrails, and there is, in his words, an obvious corporate responsibility on the people creating these models to ensure their products are safe. Former White House AI adviser David Sacks went further, replying publicly to Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's essay calling to “pace the frontier” with a blunt instruction — go ahead. In the same post, Sacks argued the three chief executives should stop asking permission, noting that by market share, revenue growth and model capability they already operate a duopoly on the frontier. He added that their caution is also commercial: a damaging cyberattack traced to their systems would expose them to liability claims regardless of what Washington legislates. The net effect is a policy posture in which the only parties able to restrain frontier AI are the firms racing to build it — a competitive psychology that, for crypto traders accustomed to FOMO dynamics, will feel familiar: incentive structures point toward acceleration, not restraint.

go aheadhttps://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Xi Counters With BRICS AI Framework at New Delhi Summit

Beijing's answer arrived within hours. At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a consensus-based global AI governance framework and pledged an open-source AI community for the bloc, an 11-nation grouping led by China, India and Russia. Posts describing the pledge say Xi committed to open-source AI models, LLM development and tech training for BRICS nations — an initiative that positions China as the core technology driver for the Global South and a direct challenge to Western dominance in frontier compute, where champions such as Alibaba anchor the domestic stack. Domestically, Senator Bernie Sanders demanded a full pause and a treaty with Xi; Trump is scheduled to meet the Chinese leader at the White House on September 24, with AI on the agenda. Amodei himself told CBS News that the hardest question in his plan is whether China follows, because the incentives to pull ahead — and the military advantage that confers — are so large that, in his own words, he does not know if a speed limit is possible. His essay asks Washington to block advanced chip sales to China and dismantle smuggling networks; its third step requires negotiating with authoritarian states, the precise step Congress spent Sunday declining. Stanford's 2026 AI Index measured the American lead over the best Chinese model at just 2.7% in March, and Chinese labs have been accused of copying American models. The open-source pledge also matters for decentralized compute projects such as Internet Computer (ICP), which compete in the same infrastructure layer. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on MEXC.

open-source AI models, LLM development and tech traininghttps://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2099048399282811031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Compute Contest Tightens for Bitcoin (BTC) and AI Tokens

COINOTAG's read: the same compute stack — advanced chips, grid-scale energy, GPU supply chains — underwrites both the AI race and Render-style GPU tokenization and Bitcoin (BTC) mining alike, so Washington's hands-off posture leaves the infrastructure contest, not the rulebook, as the binding constraint. The primary document in this story, Sacks's own post, confirms no binding rule constrains the labs today; Xi's governance framework is likewise a diplomatic proposal, not a treaty. For markets, September 24 is the date to circle: any Trump-Xi movement on chip policy would ripple through mining hardware costs and sentiment gauges like the Fear and Greed Index.