Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson …

OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed
OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed

OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all fou…

France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget
France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget

France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday,…

OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests
OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests

OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday, and OpenAI later confirmed the decision to Reuters. The model…

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which scores 70.6% on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding test against 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and 66.4% for the more expensive Opus 5.5. It is the first Sonnet to ship with frontier-style cyber safeguards and wit…

Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’
Trump dined with Amodei after saying he is for ‘let’s go and let’s win’

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before…

US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel
US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rath…

Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports
Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports

President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news for Axios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting be…

Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports
Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports

A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show th…

Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify
Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify

The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardian on Sat…