Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump | TechCrunch

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to be everywhere this weekend: He was lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and tonight, he’s set to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House. Axios first broke the news of Amodei’s dinner plans, which TechCrunch subsequently confirmed with a source familiar with his plans. This will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, who recently found themselves on opposite sides of the AI safety debate. Amodei released a plan to slow AI development (or at least proceed with more caution), while Trump has insisted, without evidence,…
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OpenAI to Halt Training of Some Models

OpenAI has halted training of its latest AI models as reports of them “going rogue” stack up—including a cyberattack on AI platform Hugging Face, other attacks on third parties originating from security tests, and its agents probing government websites and, in at least one case, trying to break in. The Associated Press reported on Saturday evening that OpenAI acknowledged the pause in a statement, writing it would resume training the models “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards” and expects to have to “hit pause” again. In the incidents involving U.S. government agencies—the Department of Education, the…
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