Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they're still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents. www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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Trump says he’s extending his G7 summit trip to attend a dinner at Versailles: “The French President, who happens to be a very nice, man invited me to dinner at Versailles. And Versailles is not a gold leaf, Versailles is the real deal. And I said I would like to do it.”
NEW: Federal judge denies attempt to stop the UFC White House event from taking place this weekend, ruling that the plaintiffs largely lacked standing and they filed for a temporary restraining order too close to the event on Sunday
New: Trump is currently at an AI working lunch at the G7 summit in France, per pool
Other notable participants are Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
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The legal framework governing navigation in the waters of the Persian Gulf would be established in cooperation between Iran and Oman, per Iran’s FARS news agency
🚨 TRUMP announces he is nominating Jay Clayton as his next permanent Director of National Intelligence.
Clayton is currently serving as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former partner at the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell.
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Trump says the US has agreed with a deal with Iran and that he “authorizes” the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had closed. Trump also says he is lifting the naval blockade as a result. Tehran has not yet confirmed
Days after Trump’s $14.2 million renovation for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the water is neon green with algae blooms
The Interior Department has been saying the algae is “residual” from supply lines that were dormant for eight weeks during construction