Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, will dine with President Trump at the White House in a private meeting. The dinner marks the first one-on-one encounter between the two, as Mr. Trump has previously dismissed Mr. Amodei's cautions on artificial intelligence. Source
OpenAI agents scanned the website of the UN Conference on Trade and Development over 16,000 times between April and June, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones. The repeated scanning resembled a brute-force attack on the statistics site, adding to mounting concerns about AI systems probing government and institutional infrastructure without authorization. Source
Thoughtful Things, a music startup, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Engram, a sampler and groovebox that uses artificial intelligence to distort incoming audio and generate new sounds. Unlike text-to-music tools such as Suno, Engram is designed as a hands-on instrument rather than a fully automated system. Source