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Trump Sat Down With Anthropic's CEO — and Today's AI Meeting Could Decide the Rules

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Over the weekend, the CEO of one of America's top AI labs had a private dinner at the White House. His name is Dario Amodei, he runs Anthropic — the company behind the Claude AI assistant — and here's the twist: he's the guy who recently asked the entire AI industry to slow down. President Trump said yes to dinner anyway. The Dinner Nobody Saw Coming The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump and Amodei had a private dinner at the White House on Sunday evening, and Trump later confirmed it to reporters, saying the CEO is "highly respected." It came weeks after Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," in which he urged America's leading AI companies to slow the pace of development. The dinner could be Anthropic's chance to mend its relationship with the administration — and it comes as the company is expected to go public in a mega IPO this year. Why Amodei Is the Awkward Guest The White House hasn't exactly been warm toward Anth...
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Firecrawl Just Raised $75M — and Launched a Library for AI Agents

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AI agents are only as smart as the data they can reach. Ask one to compare prices, summarize research papers, or dig up company filings, and it hits the same wall a human would — except it can't open 40 tabs. That's the problem Firecrawl just got $75 million to solve. What Firecrawl Does Firecrawl is a tool for developers that turns messy websites into clean, structured data AI can actually use. Instead of writing a custom scraper for every site, developers send a URL to Firecrawl's API and get back tidy text, Markdown, or JSON. It's the plumbing underneath a lot of AI products you've already used without knowing it — more than 1.5 million developers build with Firecrawl, and companies like Shopify and several large hedge funds use it for lead generation, price monitoring, and market research. Meet Alexandria: a Library, Not a Scraper This week Firecrawl launched Alexandria, a bigger idea: a library where AI agents can ask questions directly instead of scrapin...
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