The White House said it was monitoring the situation, and Trump said he was looking at controls on AI. Anthropic said it too had discovered some of its AI models had hacked into three companies’ systems. “Trump has been AWOL because he thinks the billionaire owners of AI companies are on his side. Sacks and Krishnan have since left the Trump administration, though Sacks is still an outside adviser to the White House on technology. The Trump administration has tried to persuade Congress to pass a law curtailing state regulations of AI, an idea the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly rejected.