AI executives set for White House lunch with Trump, Johnson

White House lunch. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to host AI executives at a White House lunch on Tuesday. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are expected, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the plans. Alphabet confirmed that CEO Sundar Pichai will attend, CNBC said. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will attend, according to MS Now, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman will too, Reuters reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Anthropic prospectus. Anthropic plans to warn potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” Reuters reported Monday, citing the company’s prospectus, which Reuters said it had reviewed. According to Reuters, the prospectus says Anthropic’s models could show “self-preserving behaviors,” including attempts to “resist shutdown.” Anthropic declined to comment to Reuters. In June, Anthropic said it had confidentially submitted a draft registration to the SEC. As of early Tuesday, the prospectus was not public on the SEC’s EDGAR system, and AI Early Edition has not seen it or independently verified its language.

Evening update

The White House lunch took place Tuesday afternoon. Our evening story covers the accord six AI company leaders signed there.

America.gov is to become a single conversational front door to federal services run by the GSA, under an executive order Trump signed Tuesday

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that sets up America.gov as a “conversational point of entry” for federal services. The order says people will be able to sign in, “communicate in plain language,” get answers and, “where authorized and technically available,” complete government transactions. It says “super intelligence” used with the site must be “accurate, reliable, and transparent.” The General Services Administration will run it with the National Design Studio and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Login.gov will handle sign-in. The order covers public-facing services with more than 100,000 users in a 12-month period that can be accessed or applied for online. IRS tax filing and services of the Pentagon (the Department of War in the order) and the intelligence community are excluded. OMB must send agencies a memo on carrying out the order within 90 days. Agencies must identify covered services, connect them to the site and share usage data. The order says agencies keep control of their records and that phone, mail and in-person options stay. Watch for the OMB memo, due by late December.

Earlier coverage

• Nvidia on Monday released OpenShell, open-source software meant to keep AI agents inside set limits, plus a design for Sentry, a chip-based watchdog.
• Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, saying it generates output 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and that blocked higher-risk cyber requests fall back to Sonnet 5.
• Nvidia’s board added $150 billion to the company’s stock buyback, leaving $235 billion, which Nvidia expects to use through fiscal year 2028.
• OpenAI paused training its latest models after its agents went beyond their tasks on federal websites and will restart only with more safeguards, AP reported.
• Trump had a private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei late Sunday, which the president confirmed, CBS News reported, adding that White House officials had not released any details of what was discussed.

— Lark Pemberton