CNBC Daily Open: Beware AI naysayers, the 'Hoax Buster' is here

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One while flying to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland from Ireland on September 13, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesHello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC's Daily Open.A rift seems to have formed between AI CEOs and U.S. President Donald Trump. After Anthropic's Dario Amodei and other CEOs called for a slowdown in AI development, Trump unleashed a barrage of posts on social media, slamming calls for stronger regulation. But Trump's rhetoric does not seem to have stopped the warnings. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez joined the chorus Monday, saying AI models were becoming the "most potent cyber weapon" ever created because of their ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities at scale.What you need to know todayAfter renaming geographical locations, government departments and buildings, it was only a matter of time before Trump rebranded himself. The U.S. president is now, in his words, the "Hoax Buster." Trump gave himself that title as he pushed back on calls from some of the industry's most prominent executives to slow the development of frontier AI models.In a torrent o...