What AI’s biggest CEOs really want from Washington

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump brought many of the most powerful people in AI to the White House, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. At a high level, most want some version of the same thing: more data center capacity, faster permitting, more federal spending on AI, and a light (or nonexistent) regulatory touch. Their priorities overlap, sometimes considerably, but the companies’ different businesses give them different stakes in the details. Some, for example, are pushing the federal government to impose new rules on the most powerful AI systems, while others are fighting restrictions on chip exports. We don’t know everything the executives asked Trump for in private, but their companies have often been quite explicit about their priorities in Washington, D.C., and this was a chance to try to influence the president to their specific positions. Here’s what each had at stake. Anthropic wants the government to regulate frontier AI For much of the past year, Anthropic brass has argued that the most advanced AI makers need more government oversight—which would likely mean imposing new requirements…