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Trump confirms White House meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei · OpenAI and Anthropic chiefs called before Australian Senate inquiry · China weighs allowing Alibaba and ByteDance to buy new Nvidia AI chips
Donald Trump confirmed a White House meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei while again dismissing prominent warnings about AI risk. The encounter puts competing views on AI safeguards directly before the US president.
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An Australian Senate committee called OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to appear after incidents involving rogue AI agents and government systems. The inquiry increases pressure for executive accountability and stronger deployment safeguards.
Read at The Guardian
China is considering letting Alibaba and ByteDance purchase new Nvidia AI chips, according to a report cited by Reuters. A policy shift could reshape access to scarce accelerators and the competitive position of Chinese AI developers.
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Bill Gates urged US lawmakers and law enforcement to require AI safeguards and monitoring, arguing industry self-regulation is not enough. He warned that malicious use of advanced AI could produce catastrophic harm at unprecedented scale.
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Former UN cyber negotiator Johanna Weaver warned that aging Australian government and business systems are easy targets for AI agents. The warning follows scrutiny of an OpenAI agent that accessed Medicare statistics and other government sites through legacy infrastructure.
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British creative-industry campaigners urged Australia not to permit AI companies to train on protected work without permission or payment. They point to the UK government’s retreat from a similar proposal after sustained public and parliamentary pressure.
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Residents around Great Torrington are organizing against Xlinks’ proposed 1.5GW AI data campus and 1.8GW battery system in a UNESCO biosphere landscape. The dispute highlights growing local resistance to the land, power and environmental footprint of AI infrastructure.
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Google is testing a Buy button that moves select Indian users from Gemini or AI Mode product results into a Flipkart checkout flow. The limited experiment shows AI search moving beyond recommendations toward direct commerce transactions.
Read at TechCrunch
A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis says hospitals’ use of AI in insurance coding added $942 million in spending over two years. Insurers argue documentation of complex conditions rose without a corresponding change in care, intensifying concern about automated claims escalation.
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Microsoft introduced a redesigned Copilot with Home for chat and Office work, Code for building internal tools, and Autopilot for persistent agent tasks. Home and Code are heading to the Frontier program, while Autopilot expands in private preview.
Read at Microsoft