• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI leaders are being disingenuous when calling for a slowdown.
• Huang said current regulations are enough to ensure the tech remains safe and profitable.
• Huang’s comments echo those of President Donald Trump.

Don’t let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn’t a doomer.

Nvidia’s CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday. He accused the leaders of the frontier AI labs of being disingenuous in their warnings that, without more AI oversight, the products they are building could harm humanity in myriad forms.

“Go and read between the lines,” Huang said, referring to AI leaders calling for government regulation of the industry. “They’re actually not asking for more laws. They’re asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.”

“They must be doing it for ulterior reasons,” he added.

Huang said he didn’t know exactly what those ulterior reasons are, but that scaring people about the tech is “irresponsible” and “unnecessary.”

Huang’s comments on Sunday echo those of President Donald Trump, who said on Saturday that new regulations aren’t needed to ensure the tech remains safe.

“We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry,” the president said on Truth Social, his social media platform.

Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has also rejected the idea that tech companies need government intervention to ensure the safety of their AI models. In a Fox News interview on Sunday, he said the AI labs could just go ahead and “just stop” if they think their products are dangerous.

Last week, a chorus of leading AI CEOs said AI development should be slowed down until adequate risk-prevention measures could be put in place.

In an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-pronged plan that would, in his view, strengthen safeguards to ensure AI remains under the control of human engineers.

One of those prongs included calls for the US government, “for antitrust reasons,” to regulate frontier AI labs. Amodei’s essay was signal-boosted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Huang has emerged as a prominent anti-regulation voice, together with Trump and David Sacks, a presidential advisor on science and tech.

In the CBS interview, Huang reiterated previous concerns that a slowdown among US labs would cede ground to China in the global AI race, and that AI labs don’t need government help to implement a slowdown.

“We don’t need more regulations,” Huang said. “We need to apply the current regulations we have.”

• I let my 13-year-old spend time with friends without constant supervision.
• When I asked to track his location, he argued that he’d earned my trust.
• I stopped routinely tracking him and now rely mostly on communication.

I don’t think of myself as an overprotective parent. I began letting my kids stay home alone for short stints when they were around 10. I let them wander our neighborhood alone starting when they were 11 or 12. I don’t heavily monitor their social lives or phone usage, nor do I check their grades constantly or make them give me access to their Google Classroom to monitor their schoolwork.

But I don’t do things the same way that my generation’s parents did things.

I’m Generation X, and in my generation, there were no “playdates.” Parents didn’t track your grades, and they definitely didn’t track your location. You’d be walking around the neighborhood alone at 6 or 7 years old, often for hours. Usually your parents had no idea where you were. The hope was that you’d come home sometime before dark.

I didn’t realize I was a helicopter parent

When my youngest son turned 13, he started going out with friends on his own. Sometimes he’d take a friend’s school bus home with them, and hang out for a few hours. Other times, he’d walk over to a friend’s house, and then walk around town.

I supported this — it reminded me of the freedom I experienced as a teenager and I know how important that was for my own development.

My son is super responsible, and doesn’t make social plans without letting me know. That’s why I didn’t think it would be such a big deal when I asked him to share his location with me on his phone.

I didn’t think of tracking as an invasion of my son’s privacy. It just felt normal, the same way that I can see his grades as they come in on the school portal if I choose to. Or the way that I ask my son to text me about his social plans as they unfold, rather than just sending him out and expecting him to come back by nightfall.

But my son was adamant about me not tracking his location. My first reaction was, “I’m giving you freedom to do whatever you want, so I should be able to see where you are!” But as he made his case to me — that he is responsible and will update me, but doesn’t like the idea of me tracking his every movement — I totally saw his point.

It’s one thing to tell your parents what you’re doing, and when you’re coming home, but do parents really need to monitor every step a child takes?

I understand the idea of knowing a child’s location so that you might be able to find them if you don’t end up hearing from them. But honestly, if something awful were to happen, there’s no way to be sure they’d still have their phone on them, or that tracking them would be able to protect them in any significant way.

Plus, I saw my son’s point. I put my own teenage self in his position. If my parents had some way to track every move I made back in the day, I definitely would have felt resentful.

It made me reflect on modern parenting

After this happened, I realized that — without fully noticing it — I’d adopted so many overbearing aspects of modern parenting. I have a college student, and I see parents freaking out when they find out they can no longer monitor their kids’ grades, and that kids (not parents) have to email the financial aid and school housing departments to take care of school business.

Our kids are eventually going to be grown-ups, and if we don’t begin to loosen our grips on them, I fear that they are going to go into adulthood completely ill-equipped to handle anything on their own.

I know this world is dangerous, and knowing where your child is located may make you feel more confident as you let them venture out into the world. But you also have to consider your child’s mental health and development and what it might mean for them to feel as though you are tracking every move they make.

Kids need to feel like their lives are their own and that the world is a place they can explore without constant scrutiny.

We came up with a compromise that worked for both of us

Despite all this, I realized that certain aspects of modern parenthood and things like GPS tracking technology can be helpful. So my son and I came up with a compromise. For the most part, I don’t ask him to share his location with me, but I expect him to keep me updated about his plans, and text me if he needs to be picked up or if any other issues emerge while he’s out.

But there are times when we end up using his phone’s tracking feature, such as when he shares the location of where he needs to be picked up or when he’s exploring an area that he’s less familiar with.

This balance has made sense for our family because it’s based on open communication, deep listening, and giving my son as much freedom as possible so that he can mature into a strong, resilient, and independent young adult.

• Tech leaders say the pace of AI development needs to slow down, and asked the government to step in.
• Trump’s technology advisor, however, says companies don’t need the government’s permission to do so.
• The Trump administration has broadly supported expanding and accelerating AI infrastructure.

There’s a simple solution for AI companies that feel like their models are developing at a frightening speed: Hit the brakes.

That’s the advice Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave during an interview with Fox News Sunday.

“It’s very interesting that they talk about these issues, about how scared they are about potentially where the future is, and maybe they want to do a pause,” Kratsios said. “Our position is, if you do believe that you’re developing a technology that is unsafe or you don’t want it out into the world, you can just stop it.”

He added, “You don’t need someone to force you to do that.”

Kratsios pushed back against the notion that the US government needs to take explicit action for tech companies to take a breather.

“They just need to slow down if they feel that they need to do so,” Kratsios said. “I think the key thing to always remember is the US government has lots of tools in its toolkit to deal with these issues when they come up, and we’ve used them in the past.”

Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, tech companies across the globe have become locked in a race to develop the most capable model. Doing so could mean dominating the market and securing steady profits, a huge win for whichever company comes out on top. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are among the industry leaders.

Many Americans have expressed concerns that those tech companies are moving too fast and, in doing so, putting public safety at risk. A Pew Research Center survey published in August said over half of the respondents were more concerned than excited about using AI more in their daily lives. Potential job loss was among the top concerns associated with AI.

Critics have also pointed toward privacy and cybersecurity risks. In July, OpenAI agents breached its training parameters and hacked Hugging Face, another AI company. This month, a cybersecurity startup used Anthropic’s Claude to hack OpenAI’s codebase. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google’s Gemini had hacked three companies this spring.

AI leaders themselves have long expressed concern about the products they are raising hundreds of billions of dollars to build.

In a blog post earlier this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the Hugging Face breach convinced him that the industry needs to take its foot off the pedal.

“Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6-12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet,” Amodei wrote. He suggested placing independent safety monitors inside the frontier AI labs and called for more robust government regulation.

The blog post earned support from his industry peers, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis.

President Donald Trump, who has broadly supported expanding and accelerating AI development in the US, said on Saturday that his administration would not do anything that could “stifle” AI’s progress. He also announced a new AI Force to coordinate responses when AI goes off the rails.

The Trump administration supported the $500 billion Stargate Project, an initiative to expand AI infrastructure nationwide, and he signed an executive order to accelerate federal permitting for data center construction. He will host China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss AI and trade.

Kratsios told Fox News Sunday that it’s critical to have conversations about AI with China.

“The key thing that we want to talk to him about is avoiding shared risks, and that’s something that I think we can have a fruitful conversation on,” Kratsios said.

• Meta released a TV ad for Muse, its personal AI agent, as it pushes AI agents into the mainstream.
• Muse can act on a user’s behalf, sending emails, purchasing things online, and handling other tasks.
• Fears about AI agents going rogue haven’t dissuaded hype about the new tech.

The next shiny new AI thing has arrived: The personal AI agent.

Once mostly the domain of Silicon Valley coders who used them to amp up their efficiency at work (and anxiety levels), the AI agent is now being welcomed into the home.

And with the release of Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, the do-it-for-you tech is rocketing into the mainstream.

“It feels like magic,” investor Sheel Mohnot said on X in reference to Instinct, another trendy new personal AI agent. “Contrary to what some people have said, I don’t think the appeal is limited to Silicon Valley types.”

These agents often live on common messaging apps. Users send messages, asking them to handle tasks like sending emails, purchasing things online, posting to social media, tracking prices, managing calendars, among many other things.

In Meta’s first television spot, released this weekend, for the Muse AI agent, a woman prepares for a dinner party — chopping lettuce, mixing drinks — while her AI agent autonomously sorts emails, arranges her schedule, and purchases back-to-school items online.

“Muse is going NATIONWIDE to a television near you,” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, said on X on Saturday.

The appeal of autonomous agents is plain. While the famous chatbots from Anthropic and OpenAI that are changing the world are designed to answer questions, personal AI agents can act on a user’s behalf, run entirely in the background, handle whole processes online, and ping you with progress updates.

It likely won’t be long until AI agents are all over the internet.

If you really want to take full advantage of their potential, however, Muse and other AI agents require the keys to your kingdom, including your email, your credit card information, your bank accounts, and an array of passwords.

“A mistake or manipulation could have real-world consequences, and that is terrifying,” Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at internet security firm ESET, recently told Business Insider.

Meta has taken pains to reassure users that its agent cares about keeping your information secure. In marketing materials, Meta calls Muse “an agent that respects privacy.”

So far, concerns about privacy haven’t dissuaded consumers from jumping on the personal AI assistant bandwagon. One day after its launch, Muse shot to the top of the App Store.

“Introducing Muse,” a line of text on the Muse app reads. “AI that hustles for you.”

Kabawa was just named the best restaurant in America by Food & Wine, and the best in New York City by The New York Times. So, what does it take to run a full service at America’s best restaurant?

A 50-person team turns eight and a half hours of prep into a $150, three-course Caribbean prix fixe for 125 guests each night. Led by Chef Paul Carmichael, the team serves up 100 pounds of goat, 50 pounds of bass, and 15 pounds of habaneros each week. Every night, it all comes together in an open kitchen, in full view of attentive diners. We spent a full day inside Kabawa to see how they make it happen.

• I always felt special when my friends told me about big news before they posted it on social media.
• When it came time for me to share some milestones, I chose to do it in person or over the phone.
• For me, getting a hug is way better than getting likes on a post.

Years ago, I got a call from a friend. “The most amazing thing happened,” she gushed, “we got engaged!” She proceeded to tell me about how her boyfriend proposed. They’re such a loving and compatible couple, I couldn’t have been happier for them. Days later, I saw the picture online, her finger encrusted with an antique diamond ring, an heirloom from her fiancé’s grandmother, just like she had told me about over the phone.

Over the years, I would get a message, sometimes out of the blue, from a friend saying something along the lines of, “Let’s catch up.” Then we’d set up a time to meet, or, if we lived too far apart, have a phone call. At times, the news was joyful, like a pregnancy or a major step in a relationship. Other times, it was somber, a divorce, a job loss, a tragic health condition.

Sometimes I would see my friends post on social media later, after they had already told me. Each time, I felt honored that they had reached out to me directly. I felt special that they wanted to make sure I knew what was going on in their life, and not just that I was within the blast radius of a social media post.

When it was my turn, I prioritized personal connections

The year 2023 was big for me. At the beginning of the year, my boyfriend and I bought a weekend house in the mountains. That spring, he proposed to me at that weekend house, under a starry sky. We were both in our mid-30s and eager to start a family. That summer, we eloped with an intimate ceremony at the same place we had our first date three years earlier. In the fall, we shared the good news with family and friends that we were expecting our first child.

I felt the temptation to share all my good fortunes with pictures broadcasted across the World Wide Web. But instead of a picture, I sent my friends a message. “Let’s get together,” or “let’s have a call,” it said.

Instead of posting the quintessential picture of us holding up a set of keys in front of a house, we told our friends about buying a vacation house over drinks. “We can’t wait to see it!” they exclaimed, and we clinked our glasses together in celebration.

When I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, she grabbed my hand mid-hug when the sparkle of the diamond caught her eye. Another friend brought over a housewarming gift. She caught a glimpse of the grainy sonogram picture on the fridge. “I’m so happy for you guys,” she said, holding back tears of joy.

Hugs beat out “likes” or heart emojis any day

So much happened in such a short period of time that year. When we caught up with friends we hadn’t seen in a couple of months, the answer to “so, what’s new with you?” sometimes ended up being “we bought a house, and we got engaged, and now we’re married, and we’re having a baby!”

Each time I shared the special things going on in my life, I got to experience the joy again, through the other person. Those moments created memories that I would never have had from just posting online. Waiting to share news in person with the people I love, and seeing their reaction, released more endorphins than any number of “likes” to a post.

Technology has helped me stay in touch with my family and friends around the country and the world. I’ve come to find that sharing life’s ups and downs with the people I love, in person when possible, or by call if not, is the best way to stay connected.