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Elon Musk spent the past week publicly agreeing with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI on AI safety concerns while simultaneously fighting against stricter AI regulation, creating what observers describe as a series of strange and shifting alliances. During the same period, Musk found himself contradicted by both President Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on related AI policy questions. The episode highlights the fractured and fast-moving nature of industry positioning on AI safety and regulation, as major tech figures stake out overlapping but inconsistent positions. It comes amid broader debate in Washington and Silicon Valley over how aggressively to regulate rapidly advancing AI systems.