"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Trump said, referring to the agreement between the companies. The accord asked companies to partner with an external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether a company’s AI control and monitoring systems were operating as intended. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• "It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Trump said, referring to the agreement between the companies. "And the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president."S1

• The accord asked companies to partner with an external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether a company’s AI control and monitoring systems were operating as intended.S2

• The document was signed by Mr. Trump and the bosses of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, social media platform X and NVIDIA.S3