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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.
The Clarity Act, a bill offering light-touch federal regulation for cryptocurrency assets, failed to advance after scrutiny of profits President Trump and his family made from crypto ventures. Lawmakers cited concerns over these financial ties as a factor undermining support for the legislation.
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.
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.
Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to lead the FDA, testified before the Senate health committee and repeatedly stated the MMR vaccine is safe and effective, directly contradicting Trump's earlier claim that it was 'quite lethal.' When Sen. Maggie Hassan pressed her on whether the president could ever be wrong, Overton avoided answering directly.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration can allow states to access a database containing sensitive citizenship and Social Security information to check for noncitizen voters. The ruling permits the program to move forward while related legal challenges continue.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration acted within its authority under the Supply Chain Security Act when it barred federal agencies and defense contractors from using Anthropic's products. The panel found the government could blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable certain AI capabilities even absent malicious intent, denying Anthropic's petition for review. Anthropic said it disagrees with the ruling and may seek en banc review or petition the Supreme Court.
President Trump said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not become his artificial intelligence czar, contradicting earlier Semafor and Reuters reports that he was under consideration for the post. Trump stated on Truth Social that Bessent does not want the role and is doing well at Treasury, where Trump wants him to stay.
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled 2-1 to uphold the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk, blocking the Pentagon and its contractors from using Claude AI models. The ruling addresses one of two separate designations the DOD used to justify the ban; a San Francisco court had already struck down the other designation last month. Anthropic said it disagrees with the decision and is considering further legal options.