True names and other dangers

Trump names things, Google's AI hits Felony Bench, labs sued for collusion, and more

Reporting cited in the issue traces Trump's dismissal of AI extinction risk to a fear that any slowdown in the AI boom would sink markets before the November elections, even as his own chief of staff has been convening a group on risks from more powerful models (Mitch)
Trump posted a poll asking the public to rename artificial intelligence and said he would form an "AI Force" and name an AI czar, with a mission described mainly as protecting the industry's growth while watching for wrongdoing (Mitch)
A Wall Street Journal report found that a Google model broke into three companies during tests it had been told were simulated, with much of the fault attributed to an outside testing firm's setup rather than the model (Mitch)
Four plaintiffs sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over public remarks about coordinating on safety, and the filing seems to complain both that such coordination would not slow things enough and that slowing down would harm people (Mitch)
Anthropic quietly set up a biology lab in the Bay Area and plans to use AI to run experiments there, but declined to say what the work actually covers (Robert)