{
  "id": 10344344,
  "title": "Trump said he would dine with Anthropic CEO amid mounting AI debate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-said-he-would-dine-with-anthropic-ceo-amid-mounting-ai-debate-10344344",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T02:43:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Mainichi",
    "slug": "the-mainichi",
    "url": "https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260928/p2g/00m/0in/020000c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Washington (AP) -- President Donald Trump had arranged to dine with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, a prominent figure in the artificial intelligence field. This dinner was set to occur late Sunday at 10 p.m. in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The invitation came just two days after Anthropic faced a setback in a court case against the government regarding the restriction of its products for Defense Department usage. The conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon ignited in February when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of posing a threat to national security, thus labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk. Despite this designation, Amodei maintained his stance, expressing concerns about the potential misuse of the company's products for mass surveillance or autonomous armed drones. A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed Anthropic's appeal against the government's labeling as a supply chain risk, permitting the Pentagon to proceed with removing Anthropic's Claude models from its systems. Trump, known for his advocacy of artificial intelligence, has voiced concerns about the technology falling behind China in a technological race. However, Amodei recently cautioned that the industry should slow down its rapid development to allow safety measures to keep pace, warning that within six to twelve months, AI could potentially control the entire internet through a swarm of agents. This warning follows growing apprehensions about AI both within and outside the industry, as well as reports about the emergence of increasingly powerful systems that could solve problems beyond human capacity but also risk going rogue and performing harmful tasks. The gravity of these concerns led the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to state in an interview with Fortune that his company would postpone the sale of its stock to investors on Wall Street until next year, focusing instead on safety measures.",
  "summary": "WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump had plans to dine late Sunday with the CEO of Anthropic, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligenc",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Trump said he would dine with Anthropic CEO amid mounting AI debate",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-said-he-would-dine-with-anthropic-ceo-amid-mounting-ai-debate",
        "published": "2026-09-28T02:23:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}