Superintelligence Summit, Safety Accord, and a Hot Economy

The White House convened the biggest names in AI on Tuesday—Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, and others—for what David Sacks called "the Bretton Woods of Superintelligence." President Trump hosted the gathering in the East Room, opened with a line that stuck with everyone in the room: "Whoever wins superintelligence wins." He then paused, let it land, and said it again. The result was a signed accord among six frontier model companies that Sacks helped hammer out in real time, with enforcement mechanisms that go well beyond voluntary promises.

The White House Accord on Superintelligence

The agreement itself emerged from the meeting, not before it. Sacks described how the companies accepted three concrete obligations: first, they acknowledge they are responsible actors—no deflecting to the models themselves or to international bodies. Second, they agree to internal controls verified by internal teams, but then go further by submitting to external auditors who validate those controls. Third, they will establish independent board committees to receive the external audit reports. As Sacks put it, "when the board receives a report from an external auditor, you can't disregard that. It's not optional. The board has a massive fiduciary duty to then act on that. Otherwise, their D&O