Meta's (META) CEO Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea, Business Insider reports

Meta's (META) CEO Zuckerberg told Trump in call that a national AI regulator was a flawed idea, Business Insider reports.

Direct CEO-to-president lobbying of this kind is a recurring feature of how US technology regulation actually gets shaped, with large platform companies having long preferred fragmented, sector-level or voluntary oversight over a single national body with rulemaking and enforcement powers. The practical distinction is between a standalone AI regulator, which would create a fixed institutional counterparty with jurisdiction over frontier model deployment, and the alternative of parceling authority across existing agencies, where incumbents with large compliance functions tend to hold the advantage. Private conversations of this sort rarely move policy on their own; the tell is whether the same position surfaces in administration personnel choices, draft executive action, or agency-level guidance, which is where such preferences historically harden into outcomes. For the stock, the established pattern is that regulatory headlines of this kind trade on the probability of binding rules rather than on the headline itself, so follow-through tends to depend on whether the administration publicly adopts the position. The actor's prior form matters: this company has previously shifted from resisting oversight to publicly endorsing tailored regulation once the shape of it became clear, a sequence seen across prior tech oversight cycles. As a sourced-but-single-outlet report of a private call, confirmation from other outlets or from either party is the immediate watch item.