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This is CNBC's live coverage of the CNBC AI Forum. The event will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET, and will be live streamed on CNBC.com.
The CNBC AI Forum brings business leaders, entrepreneurs and researchers to Dallas on Oct. 1, 2026, for live conversations about how artificial intelligence is reshaping companies, workers and customers.
CNBC's AI Forum will focus on the practical challenge of moving from experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, along with the risks posed by autonomous agents, cybersecurity threats, the data center buildout and uneven regulation. Follow this live blog for updates, key quotes and takeaways from sessions on AI infrastructure, governance, financial services and the global race for technological leadership.
CNBC is hosting its second annual AI Forum today in Dallas, Texas — highlighting that Dallas has become a hub for enterprise-minded AI development.
Dallas now boasts one of the country's largest tech workforces, driven by local universities' focus on expanding AI and engineering programs and by Texas's lower cost of living, which has been drawing talent away from Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, key industries, from telecom to healthcare to financial services, are embedding AI into existing infrastructure in Dallas or setting down new roots to build AI systems that can solve real-world problems for their customers.
In addition to OpenAI's Bret Taylor and Wells Fargo's Saul Van Beurden, CNBC has convened several executives, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and researchers to talk about the wide-ranging impact of AI.
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor is one of the most anticipated speakers at the CNBC AI Forum in Dallas.
Taylor, the co-founder of AI startup Sierra, will be joined on stage by Saul Van Beurden, Wells Fargo co-CEO of consumer banking & head of AI, for a conversation with CNBC's Julia Boorstin about how organizations can scale AI to create value.
It's been a big week for OpenAI: the company held its annual DevDay developer conference Tuesday, where the AI company unveiled a number of new products and developer tools.
This year's DevDay took place amid intense pressure on OpenAI to address safety concerns after it disclosed several incidents where models behaved in unintended ways.
At the CNBC AI Forum last year in Nashville, Senator Marsha Blackburn kicked off the event, pushing for federal regulation of AI, saying that her constituents were growing increasingly concerned about safety and privacy.
However, now a year later, no such federal regulation has emerged, even as concerns have escalated over the rapid pace of AI development as cases of agent-driven attacks grow and major researchers have raised warning signs about the serious consequences for humanity.
The White House hosted several tech leaders this week, and U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that he's "seeing tremendous self-policing" from the AI industry. Trump also continued to maintain that the government would not halt AI development.
"There's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that," he told reporters after the afternoon luncheon, flanked by CEOs. "But the self-regulation is very important."