The Tech Policy Press newsletter is published every Sunday. Subscribe here to receive it in your email inbox.President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the North Lawn of the White House with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and other tech leaders on September 29, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)Good morning!This week, tech executives met at the White House with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and senior Trump administration officials. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia signed a voluntary “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” to commit to robust internal controls and external monitoring and governance, an accord Wired dubbed “a fancy pinky-swear.”Photos of Trump, Johnson, Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson and other officials on the White House lawn with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Greg Brockman and others offered another indelible image of this administration’s relationship with the tech industry, and capped a week of other developments:Trump issued an executive order “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence,” instructing the federal government to use the term rather than “artificial intelligence,” which the president has criticized as suggesting the technology is “fake” for more than a year.Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will lead a new “Super Intelligence Task Force” that will be tasked to “develop…

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