Musk and Zuckerberg Killed Trump’s AI Safety Order. In Three Phone Calls.
Over the weekend of May 24–25, 2026, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and AI czar David Sacks killed Trump’s draft AI safety executive order in three phone calls on a single Wednesday night. The same Saturday, Anthropic closed a $30 billion-plus funding round — the largest in AI history. And Microsoft quietly cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token billing ate its entire annual AI budget. Three stories. One weekend. The future of AI safety regulation was decided by phone calls between billionaires and a president.