Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced on September 30 a voluntary AI agreement with six AI giants: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and NVIDIA. The agreement requires signatories to establish multi-layered control and audit mechanisms, collaborate with independent external organizations for evaluations, and set up independent committees at the board level for oversight. According to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg were instrumental behind the scenes in pushing for the voluntary regulatory framework, rejecting an earlier proposal for strong regulation similar to FINRA put forth by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The day after the agreement's release, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expanded its investigation into AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI. Analysts believe the agreement does not mandate a slowdown in AI development; instead, the safety and compliance requirements could generate more demand for computing power, potentially making NVIDIA the biggest winner.