President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that he expects 12 to 15 top AI executives to agree to "giving back" to the public when he meets them shortly, an apparent reference to a federal equity stake in the firms, per Reuters. Trump told reporters the arrangement would make the public "very rich." A White House official declined to identify the executives invited to the meeting, and Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Illinois Senate Bill 315, which passed the state Senate 52-5 and the state House unanimously May 27, would mandate annual independent third-party audits of safety practices at frontier AI labs operating in the state, GovTech reported. Once signed by Gov. JB Pritzker, who indicated in a May 27 X post he will sign, the law would also require pre-deployment transparency reports, published catastrophic risk frameworks, critical safety incident reporting, and whistleblower protections, and would take effect Jan. 1, 2027. Sponsors and outside analysts have pitched the bill as a potential national baseline for U.S. frontier model oversight in the absence of federal AI law.
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Anthropic on Wednesday called on Congress not to block state AI regulations unless lawmakers pass a "rigorous" federal law addressing "catastrophic AI risks," per Reuters. The company's policy proposal also asks Congress to require AI firms to put their most powerful models through independent safety tests, and urges Congress and the states to modernize unemployment benefit technology to prepare for AI driven labor market shocks. The Hill separately reports that OpenAI and Anthropic are now working with state legislators on AI bills rather than waiting for federal action, with most labs publicly supporting a national framework that would eliminate the state patchwork.
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OpenAI on Wednesday published a threat intelligence report describing two clusters of ChatGPT accounts, likely originating from China, that the company banned for running covert influence operations on U.S. AI policy debates. The first cluster, dubbed "Data Center Bandwagon," generated social media comments and images claiming AI data center buildouts were raising electricity prices for American families. The second, "Tech and Tariffs," criticized U.S. tariffs as attempts to dominate technological competition and amplified false claims that ChatGPT user data had been compromised, the company said. OpenAI said it found no evidence of meaningful breakout beyond the operators' own activity.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for mandatory third-party audits of frontier AI models above a compute threshold, SiliconANGLE reported. Under the proposal, governments could block deployment if independent auditors find unacceptable risk. The essay identifies four risk categories for evaluation: cybersecurity vulnerabilities, biological weapons capabilities, accelerated automated research in dangerous domains, and the potential for models to grow beyond human control. Amodei compared his framework to existing safety regimes for aircraft, automobiles and drugs, writing that AI policy must address "powerful technologies essential to the modern economy, but capable of killing large numbers of people if designed or operated poorly." The proposal goes further than Trump's June 2 voluntary AI cybersecurity executive order, which encouraged AI firms to share models with government auditors a month before public release but stopped short of mandatory pre-deployment testing.
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