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Mark Zuckerberg

What's on Mark Zuckerberg's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
34%16%12%9%29%
the call that killed the AI watchdog 34% the private line to the president 16% the op-eds asking him to quit 12% the 'perv glasses' lawsuit 9% · neweverything else 29%
#1
One phone call, and the federal AI referee vanished

Reporting says he told Trump privately that a single national AI regulator was a flawed idea. Google's Demis Hassabis had backed the proposal.

Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea

Business Insider · 2026-09-03
our translation

he doesn't want no rules, he wants rules he helps write. a FINRA for AI sounds friendly right up until someone else is holding the rulebook, so better to kill it on a phone call than lose it in a hearing

20+ outlets on the Trump callvery sure · 3 sources
#2
'AI for everyone,' decided on a call nobody else heard
Politico, Salon, TNW pile onpretty sure · 3 sources
#3
The Guardian wants him gone; a grieving father agrees
New parent op-ed lands todaypretty sure · 2 sources
#4
The AI glasses lawsuit grows a bystander problem
new — Suit widens to bystander recordingspretty sure · 2 sources
sunday, september 6
Take the AI-regulator win quietly. No victory lap post.(reported)
Read the father's op-ed about his son. Close the tab.(reported)
Ask legal how wide the glasses bystander suit can get(reported)
Check on the castle plans; 440 acres won't mow itself(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea

news.google.com · 2026-09-06

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