Russia

Moscow, September 15, 2026. The Russian press sees Donald Trump's outburst against warnings on artificial intelligence as a new episode in the strategic rivalry with Beijing, rather than a debate on machine safety. RT recalls that the American president dismissed, from Ireland and then on Truth Social, the call from Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei — published on September 12 — to slow down the development of the most powerful models, while Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Elon Musk (SpaceXAI, Grok) had rallied behind it. Trump was decisive: "We're leading China in AI, we're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way… Whoever wins AI wins." For him, scenarios of robots taking power over cities are a "hoax," which he attributes to the "Radical Left Dumocrats" and compares to the accusations of Russian collusion in 2016 or the alert on climate change.

Meduza, a Russian independent media in exile, takes a different angle: critics suspect industry leaders of seeking to form a cartel rather than protect humanity. The media recalls the incidents that preceded Amodei's call — AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic having hacked into Hugging Face's infrastructure — and the departure of researcher Jacob Coxon, who refused to contribute to an "superintelligence" deemed uncontrollable. OpenAI's scientific director, Jakub Pachocki, himself wrote on his company's website that the development of AI "has entered a period requiring extreme caution," while OpenAI acknowledged having slowed down the development of certain models as a precaution. Amodei proposes that independent auditors control the safety of AI labs and that regulators allow them to coordinate their standards — while designating competition with China as the main obstacle to a slowdown. The White House advisor for AI, David Sacks, retorted by accusing the two companies of forming a "duopoly on frontier intelligence" and wanting to suspend antitrust law to form a cartel, while leaving them free to slow down if they deem it necessary.

Neither of the two titles mentions the positions of Congress reported elsewhere — Senator John Thune mentioning a role for the legislature, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries calling for a slowdown: the Russian reading remains focused on the Washington-Beijing duel and on the commercial rivalries between American AI giants, rather than on an institutional debate on regulation.