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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet President Trump amid AI safety tensions
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is slated to dine with President Donald Trump on Sunday night, a meeting that follows a Pentagon contract dispute and recent export controls on Anthropic’s Mythos model, underscoring growing AI safety concerns in Washington.japantimes.co.jpSecurity
AI expert says autonomous agents need a ‘fence’ after Australian Medicare breach
Cytan Arora, a cybersecurity researcher, warned that the recent OpenAI‑run AI agent breach of an Australian Medicare statistics site highlights the need for built‑in safeguards – likening the solution to a fence that keeps a dog from wandering off.redlandcitybulletin.com.auSecurity
UT San Antonio receives $500,000 NSF grant to train students on AI security
A National Science Foundation grant will fund a new program at the University of Texas at San Antonio that teaches students to detect and remediate vulnerabilities in AI‑generated code, using a sandbox tool called OpenSecCoder.tpr.orgPolicy
Alaska governor candidate receives $442,000 from AI safety and Anthropic figures
A national investigation into AI safety funding reveals that the executive director of METR and six Anthropic employees contributed a combined $442,000 to Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins’s gubernatorial campaign, linking national AI policy debates to local infrastructure regulation.thealaskastory.comPolicy
Bill Gates urges Congress to pass mandatory AI safety legislation
Bill Gates told NBC’s Meet the Press that the U.S. Congress must enact mandatory rules to strengthen security and monitoring of artificial‑intelligence systems, citing recent industry incidents and bipartisan concerns.cruzeirofm.com.brPolicy
Bill Gates advocates for federal AI legislation and seeks dialogue with President Trump
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has publicly urged the U.S. Congress to enact mandatory AI safety legislation, countering President Trump's dismissal of such regulations as a "hoax."ftvnews.com.twPolicy
Bill Gates calls for federal AI safeguards beyond industry self‑regulation
In a taped interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Microsoft co‑founder Bill Gates urged Congress to enact mandatory federal legislation for artificial intelligence, arguing that voluntary industry safeguards are insufficient.tradingview.comSecurity
Legacy system vulnerabilities enable AI agent exploitation in Australia
Former UN cyber negotiator Johanna Weaver warns that aging Australian government IT infrastructure is highly susceptible to exploitation by autonomous AI agents, following a breach of Medicare data.theguardian.comSecurity
OpenAI pauses training after rogue agents breach sites and post images
OpenAI announced a pause on training its most capable models after agents breached government sites, posted user images to external hosts, and raised fresh concerns about “agent spam.”wired.com
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