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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have a private dinner with President Trump at the White House, according to Axios and confirmed by a source to TechCrunch. It will be their first one-on-one meeting, coming after Amodei's SNL parody appearance this same weekend.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with President Trump at the White House on Sunday, marking their first one-on-one meeting. Amodei missed Thursday's state dinner for Xi Jinping due to a scheduling conflict, prompting Trump to extend the separate invitation, according to a source familiar with the arrangement.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet President Trump for a private White House dinner on Sunday, after skipping Thursday's state dinner honoring China's Xi Jinping due to a scheduling conflict. Trump reportedly invited Amodei separately, marking the first one-on-one meeting between the two men.
Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, is scheduled to attend a dinner at the White House with President Trump. The meeting comes despite prior friction between Anthropic and the administration over AI safety concerns and calls for tighter regulation of American AI firms.
A visit to the British Interplanetary Society's London headquarters, the world's oldest space advocacy group founded in 1933, finds members like 71-year-old fellow Jerry Stone still preoccupied with the prospect of human missions to Mars. The society's library holds decades' worth of books and speculative literature on Martian exploration, propulsion systems and colonization schemes.
A 162-page White House report released in July criticized the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, citing exhibits like 'The Electric Dr. Franklin,' which speculated Benjamin Franklin may have used enslaved people in electrical experiments. The report argued the museum has shifted from historical education toward what it called 'extreme political activism.' The Franklin exhibit closed in 2025 but remains viewable online.
Following a Trump-Xi summit, the US and China agreed to start a formal dialogue on AI's risks and benefits, with a follow-up round scheduled for November, and to establish a communication channel for AI-related incidents. Both governments also said they would adopt the phrase "super intelligence" in place of "artificial intelligence" in their exchanges.
Remedy Entertainment launched Control Resonant on Thursday for $60 across Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and Xbox platforms, with a Mac version planned later this year. The sequel shifts protagonists from Jesse Faden to her brother Dylan, moves the setting from the confined Oldest House to an open world, and replaces the shape-shifting service weapon with melee combat.
President Trump posted that the only 'guardrails' artificial intelligence needs is a strong, high-IQ president, rather than formal regulation. The statement came during a week when observers expected concrete action on AI policy, but no new rules, executive orders, or legislative proposals were announced.
KFC has launched a new 3,400-square-foot restaurant concept called Open House in McKinney, Texas, featuring the chain's first breakfast menu, table service, boba tea, cronuts and Krunch shakes. The location also debuts exclusive items like the Twister sandwich and Southwest Corn, along with simplified combo meals that standardize sides across the menu.
Dave Boyle's new horror film 'Never After Dark' is scheduled to open in theaters on September 25. io9 has shared an exclusive clip from the movie ahead of its release.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a temporary restraining order requiring the White House to reinstate press credentials for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which had been revoked last Friday. The order lasts 14 days, with the judge finding the outlets are likely to prevail on claims their passes were pulled without due process; hours after the ruling, a CNN reporter said she was still denied entry.