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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to sit down one-on-one with President Trump for what would be their first direct meeting. It's a notable moment — Amodei has been one of the more outspoken voices on AI safety, and a private dinner with the current administration signals that the AI industry's relationship with Washington is deepening in ways that will bear watching.
Shifting gears, a popular blog post asking when exactly Google got so weird has been making the rounds, and it's resonating. The piece captures a frustration many users have quietly held for years — that Google Search, once a model of clean utility, now feels cluttered, gamified, and oddly unreliable. It's less a technical critique than a cultural one, and that's precisely why it's landing.
And in a story that should concern anyone using investment platforms, Australian trading app Stake has confirmed a data breach traced back to its infrastructure partner DriveWealth. Customer details were exposed in the hack, which is a sharp reminder that your data's security is only as strong as the least-secured link in your provider's supply chain.
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