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President Donald Trump pushes for the U.S. to maintain its artificial intelligence lead over China as he meets with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for dinner at the White House on Sunday.

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Trump, confirming earlier reporting by Axios and Reuters, told Fox News that he would have dinner with Amodei on Sunday night.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

The new "fast track" inclusion rules mean that Anthropic could show up in ETFs just a few days after going public.

Anthropic will not appear before an Australian senate committee hearing on AI on October 1, a source familiar with the matter said, days after a disclosure that an agent from OpenAI gained unauthorized access to the country's health system database.

Anthropic's planned Nasdaq IPO targets a $1.5-2 trillion valuation. Several ETFs already hold pre-IPO stakes, with dedicated Anthropic funds in