Washington, Sept. 30 -- US President Donald Trump has secured a voluntary agreement with some of the biggest names in the artificial intelligence field to adopt new safety controls, describing the White House pact as "morally binding" as Washington leans on industry self-regulation rather than tighter federal rules.

The White House Accord on Super Intelligence was signed by executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and Nvidia following a lunch at the White House on Tuesday.

Trump compared the agreement to "a constitution" and said there was "a lot of commonality" among the technology companies on the need for safeguards.

The one-page agreement sets out a voluntary framework built around multiple layers of safety controls and a...