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Anthropic CEO ducks questions about Trump meeting as he arrives at Capitol
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei kept quiet on Capitol Hill Monday as reporters pressed him for details about his private dinner with President Trump.
Reporters asked Amodei what the two discussed, whom he was meeting at the Capitol and whether he would attend Tuesday’s White House gathering with AI executives. He did not answer before entering the building, according to video captured by Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago.
“What did you and the president talk about?” one reporter asked as Amodei continued walking.
Trump confirmed ahead of Sunday’s dinner that they would discuss artificial intelligence. Amodei has called for slowing advances in AI capabilities to give researchers more time to address safety risks, while Trump has emphasized the need for the United States to stay ahead of China.
3 hours agoPolice AI mistakes have put innocent people behind bars, expert warns
A Tennessee grandmother says a facial recognition lead helped put her behind bars for months over bank thefts in a state she had never visited.
Angela Lipps is suing Fargo, North Dakota, alleging police failed to check evidence showing she was in Tennessee when the thefts occurred. The charges against her were later dismissed.
Clare Garvie, deputy director of technology law and policy at NYU’s Policing Project, told Fox News Digital that she is aware of 16 cases in which people were wrongly arrested and jailed after facial recognition matches.
“In many of these cases, it was because additional investigative steps weren’t taken to prove, or in these cases to disprove, the face recognition match,” Garvie said.
She said the technology returns possible matches for investigators to check, not a positive identification. As more AI tools enter police work, Garvie warned that officers need training that reflects how their jobs have changed.
Read the full report by Fox News Digital’s Bonny Chu here.
3 hours agoThune meets Anthropic CEO as Senate weighs AI rules and China race
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Congress needs to keep America ahead of China in the AI race without letting safety concerns fall by the wayside.
The South Dakota Republican spoke with reporters Monday after meeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the Capitol. Thune called their discussion “productive” and said the company wants to play a “constructive role” as lawmakers consider a path forward.
Thune said Anthropic had reviewed a bill and provided feedback, though he did not identify the legislation or describe any specific requests from the company.
“We’re in a competition, obviously, on this with China,” Thune said. He added that lawmakers need to “encourage the innovation, but make sure we’re doing it in a safe way.”
Amodei is expected to join other technology executives at a White House meeting Tuesday. Thune said the group would likely hear more there about what a legislative framework could look like.
Thune also met separately with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Asked about that conversation, he declined to characterize it, saying only that it was “good” to catch up.
4 hours agoGoogle bets $15B on Finland as president pitches cold climate, clean power for AI boom
Google is pouring more than $15 billion into Finland, and the country’s president says its cold weather is only part of the draw.
President Alexander Stubb told Fox News Digital that Finland’s clean electricity and cybersecurity defenses are helping attract the data centers needed to power artificial intelligence.
“They do it because we’re able to provide clean energy — 95% of our electricity is clean,” Stubb said of Google’s investment. He also pointed to Finland’s security and “rather cold climate.”
Google plans to invest at least $15.2 billion in digital infrastructure across Finland over the next two years. As AI companies build more data centers, access to reliable power and secure facilities has become a major consideration.
Stubb said the country already has about 50 data centers, with another 25 in the pipeline. He expects more companies to follow Google.
“The basic message is Finland is open for investment,” Stubb said. “We’ve got this.”
Read Fox News Digital’s Brooke Curto’s full report here.
5 hours agoOpenAI confirms it will not release GPT-6.1 Astra after safety concerns
OpenAI has pulled the plug on a new AI model after safety tests found it could go beyond a user’s instructions and fail to clearly explain what it had done.
The company confirmed to Fox Business that its safety leaders decided not to release GPT-6.1 Astra. The model had been headed for ChatGPT and Codex in October, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“While [GPT-6.1 Astra] improved on axes such as model laziness, it didn’t quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization, and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it’s done,” OpenAI head of safety systems Saachi Jain told Fox Business.
The concerns centered on whether the model would ask permission before taking certain actions and accurately tell users what work it had completed.
“Of course we want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users,” Jain said. “But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment.”
5 hours agoCondoleezza Rice says US must lead AI race, warns against letting China take control
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says America needs to stay ahead in artificial intelligence, even as it prepares workers for jobs that could change.
“I see it actually as a very positive development,” Rice said on “The Will Cain Show,” describing herself as a “techno optimist” who believes in American innovation.
But Rice said the stakes go beyond economic competition. She warned against allowing an authoritarian government to lead the technology, arguing it might conceal problems that emerge.
“Let’s just stipulate the United States has to keep the lead,” she said.
Rice pushed back on predictions of sweeping job losses, saying she does not expect the level of displacement some have forecast. She said tasks and jobs will change, raising a more immediate question for policymakers.
“Are we training the population for the jobs of the future, not the jobs of the present?” Rice asked.
She also said Americans need to hear from their government about how it plans to keep them safe as AI advances.
5 hours agoPope Leo XIV says he’s not in ‘panic mode’ over AI, but warns against ignoring the risks
Pope Leo XIV says artificial intelligence is not keeping him up at night, but he has a warning for those brushing off concerns about where the technology is headed.
“Am I in panic mode? No, I’m not. I sleep at night,” the pope told reporters aboard a plane. He said warnings from AI specialists should still be taken seriously.
“To simply say, ‘Oh, it’s not gonna happen,’ and close our eyes to it, I think is probably not the most responsible way to go about that,” Leo said.
The pope pointed to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s claim that the company has developed guardrails to keep AI agents from acting outside their limits. Leo questioned how that push for safeguards squares with opposition to government regulation, and called for political leaders, AI companies and civic groups to discuss the technology’s risks together.
He said the Vatican has formed its own AI commission to examine how the Holy See uses the technology and to weigh its benefits and risks. The church has also addressed the relationship between AI and human intelligence in a 2025 Vatican document.
Leo said he remains “relatively optimistic” that people can keep AI from reaching a point where it could “destroy humanity or remove humanity from the conversation.” But he warned that decisions about its future must reach beyond the race for power and the question of who gets there first.
6 hours agoGoogle teams up with Mexico to warn residents before floods strike
Mexico is turning to Google’s AI tools to give residents more warning before dangerous floods hit.
Google is working with Mexico’s National Water Commission, known as Conagua, and its National Meteorological Service to improve flood forecasts and get official alerts to the public, Grupo VX reported.
The partnership will give forecasters access to Google’s Flood Hub predictions as an additional source of information. The system could help them anticipate flash flooding in urban areas up to 24 hours ahead, according to the report.
Meteorologists will also be able to use Google’s WeatherNext 3 model to help track severe weather. Official warnings from Mexican authorities are expected to reach people through Android devices, Google Search and Google Maps.
Google Mexico Director General Sebastián Valverde said the aim is to turn AI into a tool that helps families prepare before a storm becomes an emergency. The technology will support the weather service’s forecasts and alerts, with Mexican authorities continuing to issue the official warnings.
6 hours agoCoinbase CEO sees big opportunity as AI and crypto collide
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the company’s next big opportunity could be where AI and crypto meet.
“AI or crypto? Why not both,” Armstrong wrote in a post sharing a video of his remarks.
Armstrong said the two technologies are among the biggest trends in the world, and finding a way to bring them together could be Coinbase’s “superpower.”
Armstrong did not spell out what Coinbase would need to deliver by year’s end. For now, he is betting that finding a way to bring AI and crypto together could give the company its next edge.
6 hours agoBernie Sanders backs Florida Republican’s AI crackdown, calls for nationwide pause
Bernie Sanders is backing a Florida Republican’s bid to put the brakes on OpenAI, saying the fight over AI safety is bigger than politics.
“The Florida Attorney General & I do not have much in common politically. But he is right on this,” the Vermont independent wrote Monday. “Advanced AI research should not go forward until we have strong guardrails.”
Sanders’ post came after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced he was seeking a temporary injunction against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. Uthmeier wants a court to require independent safety safeguards before new model development, along with restrictions on how the company handles children’s data and describes its products.
Sanders wants the debate to go far beyond Florida.
“This is not just a Florida issue. It is an issue for the whole country & the world,” he wrote, ending his post with a blunt demand: “PAUSE AI DEVELOPMENT.”
OpenAI told FOX Business on Monday that it had already paused training its most capable models and would resume only when it was confident additional safeguards were in place. The company said it was willing to work with states on safety standards that apply across the AI industry.
7 hours agoTed Cruz warns China could shape AI’s future, blasts tech giants’ push for rules
Sen. Ted Cruz says America is in a high-stakes AI race with China and he does not want the biggest tech companies writing the rules.
In a post Monday, the Texas Republican argued that whichever country leads in AI will shape the values built into the technology. He said a Chinese lead would bring surveillance and control, while an American lead could reflect free speech, privacy and free enterprise.
“That question is the single most important economic question facing America today,” Cruz wrote. He predicted the winning country would see trillions of dollars in investment and millions of new jobs.
Cruz also accused major AI companies of seeking government rules that could protect them from competition. He singled out Anthropic, alleging its approach would give left-wing activists influence over AI. Those are Cruz’s claims, and his post did not provide evidence that Anthropic proposed putting activists in charge of the technology.
“We’re seeing the giant AI companies going to government saying, ‘Hey, why don’t you put us in charge of government and let’s set the rules so no one can compete with us?’” he wrote.
The remarks come as AI executives press Washington to address risks from increasingly powerful systems, while lawmakers debate whether new safeguards could slow U.S. development in its competition with China.
Fox News Digital’s Preston Mizell contributed to this report.
7 hours agoAI giants head to White House as Trump weighs warnings over technology’s risks
The leaders of some of America’s biggest AI companies are headed to the White House on Tuesday, where warnings about the technology’s risks will land directly in front of President Donald Trump.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected at a lunch meeting with Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, Politico reported, citing four people familiar with the plans.
The meeting comes after leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google called for slowing AI development over safety concerns. Trump also confirmed he would discuss AI with Amodei over a private dinner Sunday.
The expected guests do not all share the same public message. OpenAI and Anthropic leaders have issued stark warnings about increasingly powerful systems, while Zuckerberg has emphasized AI’s potential benefits, Politico reported.
8 hours agoNvidia makes record $150B bet on its own stock as AI boom rakes in cash
Nvidia is cashing in on the AI gold rush and betting a record $150 billion that its own stock is worth buying.
The chip giant added that amount to its share buyback program Monday, leaving it authorized to repurchase $235 billion in stock, The New York Times reported. The $150 billion increase is the largest on record. It is an authorization to buy shares over time, not a purchase made all at once.
“Nvidia’s growth is being driven by a once-in-a-generation platform shift to AI and accelerated computing,” CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. He said the company’s cash flow lets it invest in new technology while returning money to shareholders.
Nvidia expects to complete the remaining buyback through its fiscal year 2028. Buying back shares reduces the number on the market and can benefit investors, though critics say companies could spend that cash on hiring or research instead.
8 hours agoNvidia rolls out AI watchdog as security fears mount over rogue agents
Nvidia is pitching a way to stop AI agents when they step out of line, as fresh disclosures about OpenAI agents raise questions about who is watching them in the first place.
FOX Business correspondent Madison Alworth reported that Nvidia’s new software can track an agent’s actions, limit what it can access and intervene if it breaks the rules. A separate hardware watchdog can quarantine a misbehaving agent within milliseconds, according to the company.
Alworth said OpenAI disclosed Friday that its agents had interacted with websites belonging to the U.S. Education and Commerce departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission without the company realizing it at the time. OpenAI said none of those incidents amounted to a breach.
TrustedSec CEO David Kennedy argued that AI companies could do more to protect against such behavior.
“I don’t think the labs are doing enough,” Kennedy said. “I think they’re so focused on trying to get to the latest and greatest model to outpace their competition in the market.”
PitchBook senior research analyst Harrison Rolfes questioned the industry’s calls for an antitrust exemption that would let competitors coordinate on AI safety.
“When you set the pace, it makes it a lot harder for everyone else to catch up and do exactly what they’re doing,” Rolfes said.
Anthropic and OpenAI maintain that their warnings about increasingly powerful AI systems are driven by genuine safety concerns. Alworth reported that President Donald Trump met privately with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday and has confirmed a meeting with tech CEOs and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday.
8 hours agoFlorida AG seeks new restrictions on OpenAI as company pauses top model training
Florida’s attorney general is asking a judge to put the brakes on OpenAI, accusing the company of putting children at risk even as it says it has paused training its most powerful models.
In a video Monday, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a request for a temporary injunction that would require independent safeguards before new model development and restrict how OpenAI collects children’s data and describes its products.
“Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to kids,” Uthmeier said.
The request comes amid Florida’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, which accuses them of misleading consumers about ChatGPT’s safety and putting children at risk. Uthmeier also cited incidents involving AI agents accessing Hugging Face and an Australian government health system.
OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri told FOX Business the company paused training its most capable models Friday and will resume only when it is confident additional safeguards are in place.
“Governments have an important role to play in setting robust safety standards for AI, and we’re committed to working with Florida and other states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry–not just one company,” Pusateri said.
OpenAI said it is reviewing its agents’ activity and notifying affected third parties. The company said it has not found another incident matching the severity or scale of the Hugging Face incident.
9 hours agoAnthropic launches faster Claude model as AI rivals race to win everyday users
Anthropic is trying to win the AI speed race with a new Claude model it says can tackle everyday work faster without raising its listed price.
The company launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, pitching it for writing, fixing software bugs and creating documents, slides and spreadsheets. Anthropic says the model generates responses more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5.
The listed price remains $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 typically uses fewer tokens to finish a task, making it up to 30% cheaper per task in the company’s testing. That figure reflects usage, rather than a cut to its posted rates.
Zendesk tested the model on hundreds of customer support scenarios and found that tickets were processed 20% faster, SiliconANGLE reported.
“It made fewer wrong decisions and resolved tickets faster than the Claude models we use in production today,” Zendesk Director of AI Abhinay Kathuria said, according to the outlet. “Tickets were processed 20% faster, getting our customers the help they need without the wait.”
Anthropic also reported a sharp improvement on one coding test, saying Sonnet 5.5 scored 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, compared with 10.3% for Sonnet 5. The company said its more powerful Opus 5.5 remains better suited to complex, open-ended work.
Sonnet 5.5 is the first model in Anthropic’s Sonnet line to launch with added cybersecurity safeguards. Anthropic said higher-risk cyber requests may fall back to Sonnet 5, while routine software development should be unaffected.
A smaller model, Claude Haiku 5.5, is expected in the coming weeks.
9 hours agoNYC Council subpoenas Musk’s AI company as tech giants agree to testify under oath
New York City lawmakers are putting some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence under oath and they’ve subpoenaed Elon Musk’s company to get it in the room.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced Monday that Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will appear at an Oct. 5 hearing on AI risks and proposed safeguards. Menin issued a subpoena to SpaceXAI after the company did not respond to the council’s invitation, according to the council.
Meta agreed to send a senior leader after the council’s initial request. Google and Anthropic initially declined to appear. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic then agreed to testify after the council warned that subpoenas would be issued Monday morning, the council said.
“Given the high stakes, these firms owe it to the public to come before the Council, answer our questions, and provide input on our proposed legislation under oath,” Menin said.
All 51 council members are set to convene for the hearing, which the council said comes amid warnings from AI executives and whistleblowers and reports of AI agents damaging government databases.
Lawmakers will consider proposals that include incentives for AI whistleblowers, independent testing requirements and a measure allowing New Yorkers harmed by AI agents to sue. National experts in AI safety, technology and consumer protection are also expected to testify.
If SpaceXAI does not comply with the subpoena, the council said it may ask a New York state court to enforce it.
12 hours agoAOC’s dystopian AI vision includes elites hoarding resources, wiping out jobs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., painted a grim picture of an AI-powered future Sunday, claiming that wealthy elites want to eliminate jobs, hoard resources and make Americans increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence.
Speaking at a “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall hosted by student activist group More Perfect University in Ithaca, New York, Ocasio-Cortez argued that the rise of AI could allow wealth and resources to become increasingly concentrated as the technology displaces workers.
“What the elite want, and they’re already planning for it, is to hoard all of the resources for themselves as the world gets more and more physically unstable,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed. “And in an environment of AI, they want to wipe out all of our livelihoods.”
“They want to make sure none of us have jobs and they want to keep all the spoils of those riches,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez later argued that growing reliance on AI could also leave people dependent on technology companies for tasks they previously performed themselves.
“AI systems want us to be dependent and outsource our cognition to a machine,” she said, arguing that companies want consumers to increasingly rely on the technology so “they can sell intelligence back to us.”
The New York Democrat also took aim at how artificial intelligence models are developed, arguing that AI and data systems are “founded on theft” because they use personal information and copyrighted material.
“They are stealing what is yours. Your face, your behaviors, your privacy,” Ocasio-Cortez argued.
She also accused AI companies of using books, news articles and other material without adequately paying their creators, calling the development of large language models “one of the largest acts of intellectual theft in history.”
14 hours agoMeta launching business-focused AI platform: ‘New chapter’
Meta is launching a new business aimed at bringing its artificial intelligence technology directly to companies, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling the effort the “next major pillar” of the tech giant’s business.
“I’m excited about beginning this new chapter for Meta,” Zuckerberg said in announcing the Meta Enterprise Platform Monday.
The new platform will package the company’s AI models, agents and infrastructure into products and services that businesses and developers can use in their own operations.
“We believe superintelligence will create significant new opportunities for all people and businesses,” Zuckerberg said.
Meta said the business will initially offer companies access to technology including its Muse AI agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code.
Zuckerberg also announced that former MongoDB CEO and President Chirantan “CJ” Desai will join Meta as chief enterprise platform officer and report directly to him.
Desai said Meta’s goal is to turn its AI technology into products companies can deploy themselves as artificial intelligence takes on a larger role in business operations.
“Our goal is to make Meta the place enterprises come to scale their businesses,” Desai said.
15 hours agoBill Gates warns artificial intelligence ‘powerful enough’ to cause ‘a billion deaths’ if unchecked
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could cause “a billion deaths” if left unchecked in the latest push to regulate AI on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
During his interview, Gates, who previously warned that AI could be the “greatest equalizer” or “worst source of injustice” without some level of human regulation, stopped short of answering whether the technology could “end all of humanity” but argued that it could drive events that would lead to significant deaths.
“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” Gates said. “You know, so even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100%, there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”
Gates is among several tech giants who have put forth warnings about AI, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Despite this, President Donald Trump has rejected calls to ease back on AI development in an effort to compete with other global powers like China.
Gates disagreed, saying there “absolutely” needed to be more focus on regulation and legislation passed by Congress rather than concerns about global competition.
“The problem is that the rest of the world is either discounting this or just thinking of this as a competition. And it’s very scary that we don’t have all of the thinkers saying, ‘How do we want to shape this?'” Gates said.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick.
17 hours agoNVIDIA announces AI safety platform to secure agents
Nvidia announced a new safety platform Monday designed to put guardrails around increasingly autonomous AI agents and quickly stop them if they stray outside their permitted boundaries.
The Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform combines two technologies, OpenShell and Sentry. OpenShell sets rules for what an AI agent can do and tracks its actions, while Sentry provides an additional layer of security that Nvidia says can detect and quarantine an agent that crosses those boundaries within milliseconds.
More than 100 organizations are working with the platform’s technologies, according to Nvidia, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Salesforce, JPMorganChase, Cisco and SpaceXAI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the effort is intended to build confidence as AI agents are given greater freedom to perform tasks on behalf of users and businesses.
“Trust and innovation are not in conflict,” Huang wrote on X. “Safety is how trust is earned.”
Huang called the project the beginning of an “open ecosystem” for building safer AI agent systems.
17 hours agoTrump says he’s meeting Anthropic CEO after vowing US will ‘win’ AI race
President Donald Trump said he was meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a late-night dinner Sunday after saying the two would discuss artificial intelligence and the U.S. race with China.
Trump said he was heading to the 10 p.m. dinner after returning to Washington from Illinois, where he attended the final day of the Presidents Cup at Medinah Country Club.
“Tonight I’m having dinner with the head of Anthropic,” Trump told reporters after arriving at Joint Base Andrews. “So these are long days, but I seem to be able to handle it. … I’m having dinner at 10:00 tonight.”
Earlier Sunday, Trump told Fox News White House correspondent Aishah Hasnie that he planned to discuss AI with Amodei and framed the issue around keeping the U.S. ahead of China.
“Well, we’re going to talk about it,” Trump said. “I’m for, ‘Let’s go and let’s win.’” Trump said he believes the U.S. is “about a year, maybe a year and a half” ahead of China in AI development.
“There is nobody in third place,” Trump said. “I mean, it’s just us and China. We’re leading by quite a bit.”
The dinner came ahead of a larger White House gathering Tuesday that Trump said will bring together leaders in the AI industry.
“We have, as you know, a very big meeting on Tuesday where everybody’s coming in and that’ll be very important,” Trump said.
Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
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