OpenAI's Global Policy Head, Chris Lehane, confirmed to reporters on Tuesday that the company has been in talks with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind for several weeks regarding AI safety. This follows an article by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who called for industry cooperation to slow down the pace of frontier AI development to avoid catastrophic risks. Meanwhile, former U.S. President Donald Trump and his AI advisor David Sacks dismissed AI safety concerns, arguing that any slowdown would give China an advantage in the competition.