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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a recent G7 lunch with world leaders and CEOs. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The White House and Anthropic are working on a framework to assess AI security flaws, POLITICO exclusively reports. Anthropic's AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, face export controls due to security-flaw concerns. The talks aim to set benchmarks for AI security risk assessment. The White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of security flaws in new AI models and guide potential government intervention, according to a senior White House official and an administration official familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss it with POLITICO. The effort comes after the White House imposed export controls on Anthropic, which forced the company to suspend access for all users to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its latest powerful AI models, over a perceived security flaw, known in the industry as a jailbreak. Administration officials and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disagreed over the severity of the jailbreak, POLITICO previously reported, but the technology has outpaced the government infrastructure to define and assess such disputes. POLITICO — like Business Insider — is part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. The attempt to create a standardized method to evaluate this and future such incidents underscores how the administration is racing to establish guardrails for new and powerful models that some fear can, if left unchecked, threaten economic and national security. The negotiations between Anthropic and the administration also reflect an understanding that no AI model can be completely immune to hacking — part of Anthropic's initial defense of its model — and that the government should lay out the rules for companies to measure security risks by, a sentiment relayed by other leading AI companies and country leaders at G7 meetings earlier this week in France. The discussions between the White House and Anthropic — led on the company's side by Sarah Heck, head of public policy, and Tom Brown, cofounder — are aimed at developing a common set of benchmarks that could be used to assess future jailbreaks, including the extent to which safeguards were bypassed, the capabilities exposed, and the practical consequences of the breach. Anthropic and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. While the export controls on Anthropic have yet to be lifted, the shift toward a technical standards-setting exercise is a sign that negotiations are progressing. On Friday, talks had effectively collapsed after Anthropic rejected demands to de-deploy Fable, arguing the vulnerability was limited and did not amount to a meaningful security flaw. The White House responded by imposing export controls that barred foreign users from accessing the model, forcing the company to pull it from the market. Over the weekend, however, senior administration officials and Anthropic leaders held a series of lengthy calls with Anthropic cofounder Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross. Those conversations led to nearly a week of in-person meetings in Washington. Anthropic dispatched senior researchers and safeguards experts to the Commerce Department on Monday to patch things up with administration officials. This story originally appeared on POLITICO and is courtesy of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, which harnesses the resources of the company's newsrooms to publish ambitious scoops, investigations, interviews, opinion pieces, and analysis. It allows journalists — including those from POLITICO, Business Insider, WELT, BILD, Onet, and Fakt — to collaborate on major stories for an international audience of hundreds of millions across platforms. Read the original article on Business Insider

Winston Lord, his son Winston Bao Lord, and his grandson Levi Lord watching the parade at the Business Insider offices. Agnes Applegate/BI The day before the New York Knicks took over Lower Manhattan to celebrate their historic NBA championship, a Business Insider staffer stumbled upon a heartwarmingly desperate Facebook post. A son was begging for a spot high above the predicted crowd of millions to watch the parade with his 88-year-old father, who was recovering from surgery, and his 10-year-old son. "This is a long shot. Then again, so was Jalen Brunson's three in Game 4. I'm looking for my OG," the post read. Business Insider already had planned an employee watch party in our newsroom above the parade route — and who wouldn't want to feel like newly minted New York City sports legend OG Anunoby? We reached out and invited the trio to join us. After enthusiastically taking us up on the offer, 58-year-old Winston Bao Lord and I hopped on the phone to plan the logistics of his visit. Imagine the slight shock I felt when we found out exactly who we were talking to Bao Lord shares a name with his father, Winston Lord, a close advisor to Henry Kissinger and a crucial part in restoring US-China relations in the 1970s. He's also a die-hard Knicks fan, a trait he passed down to his son, who spoke about his father's accolades and Jalen Brunson's team leadership in the same reverent tone. Though we weren't aware of Lord's vast, storied career when we initially reached out, the discovery reminded us that at the end of the day, everyone —no matter if you're a retired diplomat or a student who skipped school — can feel the magic and camaraderie of being a Knicks fan right now. "The thing that's unique about the Knicks, of course, it unites the city." It's been 53 years since their last championship, but Lord said his wait for this moment was longer. He's been a fan since he was his grandson Levi's age, and he'd been loving the team for two decades before he saw their first championship win in 1970. "The thing that's unique about the Knicks, of course, it unites the city," Lord said. "This is the one team everyone can sort of get behind." His son and grandson took the train from Baltimore into the city last night to meet him, and soon enough, the small group was in a cab on their way from his uptown apartment to Business Insider's offices at 7:30 a.m. this morning — around the same time I was frantically elbowing my way through the massive orange-and-blue crowds downtown trying to beat them there. They arrived through the mayhem around 9:30 a.m. after a cab ride and a half-mile walk. The route their cab took, they said, was a team effort between them, their cab driver, and AI — they fed the official parade route into both Claude and Gemini to ask for real-time road closure updates. I couldn't believe they made it on time, especially with the 88-year-old Lord's walker in tow. But once they did, their excitement was palpable. "The energy, it's incredible. If you look around walking to One Liberty Plaza, you're seeing all these feet hanging from the second floor because it's trying to get a vantage point."Bao Lord said about their commute. Fans lined the streets trying to get the best view of the Knicks parade. Steve Russolillo/BI Once they were in and we were waiting for the parade to start, we talked about their favorite Knicks memories. Lord was born in 1937, and told me about growing up in New York, secretly listening to Knicks games on the radio as a kid, and watching for footsteps outside his door so he could quickly turn the volume down before his parents caught him staying up late. He also told me he didn't get much of a chance to watch the team's last Finals run 53 years ago as intensely. The Lords left at 7:30 a.m. to get to Business Insider's offices. Agnes Applegate/BI "I was working for the government in 1970, 1973, when we won our two championships," Lord said. "That's the good news. The bad news is, I was working for a guy named Henry Kissinger, who, if you left the office before midnight, you got fired. So, I didn't see that much of the actual games when we won our championship." He couldn't catch most games then, but with the free time retirement has given him, his primary hobby has been keeping up with his favorite teams. If he wasn't watching the Knicks parade today, he told me he'd be at home watching the World Cup. "But in terms of enjoying it with my family, this is certainly one of the highlights." As I spoke with Lord and Bao Lord about their love for the team and New York, Levi, the 10-year-old, was sitting off to the side, his excitement seeming to wane a bit as he waited for the parade to start. Just as I began to wonder whether he was as big a fan as his dad and grandfather had hyped him up to be, the parade kicked off — and he jumped up in front of the window, the diehard Knicks fandom in his blood on full display. Reporter Agnes Applegate, the three generations of Lords, and chief news editor, Steve Russolillo. BI I couldn't hear the office TV announce which bus each player was on, but Levi, with his face pressed up against the glass, told me every single one. He was squinting to read the signs on the sides of the buses, confidently naming every player on them, becoming more animated as he rattled them off. Watching the parade. Agnes Applegate/BI His grandfather and father were proudly watching him when they could pull their eyes away from the window. The only other time I saw the elder two Lords look away was when they would get up during a lull in our direct line of sight to check the TV for who was coming next. In that moment, I caught a small glimpse of what it must have looked like when the three of them went to their first game all together at Madison Square Garden for the first time last year. I asked Lord where the parade ranked on the scale of most interesting or exciting days in his life; he called it apples and oranges. "Compared to opening China or forging a peace agreement with Vietnam or going to Middle East shuttles, going to a Moscow summit, I'm not going to put it in that class," he said. "But in terms of enjoying it with my family, this is certainly one of the highlights." Read the original article on Business Insider

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Midjourney says it's getting into healthcare. Since its scanners will dip users into water, it says it's building a coordinating spa. Midjourney Midjourney, the image-generating AI lab, is making a bold move into healthcare. It said its new tech will immerse users in water, where sensors will scan their bodies. Medical and science experts are cautious about the ultrasound tech. Midjourney, the AI lab best known for image generation, has announced an unexpected healthcare project: an underwater, full-body scanner. Medical experts are expressing caution about what the scans could reliably show — and how consumers might use them. "Today we're gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope," the company wrote in a Wednesday blog post. It's called "Midjourney Medical." The plan is centered on an ultrasound scanner that the lab says could eventually make internal body imaging fast, routine, and more consumer-friendly. Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical" pic.twitter.com/c14YcO6yaU — Midjourney (@midjourney) June 18, 2026 According to Midjourney's blog post, the scanner would lower users — via an "elevator" — into a tub of water, where a ring of sensors would send ultrasonic waves through the body from multiple angles. The sensors act, as the company put it, "like a dolphin," using echolocation. Midjourney says prototypes of the system have generated 3D maps of the body in 60 seconds. The company said it will supply users with data to "become more aware of our health" and "improve our lifestyles." It calls the system "as powerful as MRI, and as casual as a trip to the spa." And, since users will already be wet, Midjourney says it's building an accompanying spa for its San Francisco location. The spa — complete with hot tubs, saunas, and cold plunges — is set to open by 2027. Midjourney did not say if the healthcare project would refocus its core image-generation business model. In conversations with Business Insider, radiologists raised concerns that frequent full-body scanning can lead to incidental findings, false positives, anxiety, and unnecessary follow-up care if results are not interpreted in a clinical context. The US Preventive Services Task Force, for example, recommends preventive scanning services when evidence shows a high or moderate net benefit. Put simply, finding more things in the body is not always helpful. In an email to Business Insider, Midjourney founder David Holz said the company is still figuring out pricing, but wants to make the scans "as accessible as possible" while generating enough profit to expand. Holz said Midjourney is not currently using AI in the scanner, though it hopes to use AI in the future "to improve everything across the board." He said the company has not finalized its data policies, but that the "general idea is to only use data to improve the service to the people using it." Silicon Valley reacts Met up with @bryan_johnson at the @midjourney event for his review of @DavidSHolz's new machine pic.twitter.com/D4Dya4PFDO — Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) June 18, 2026 Elon Musk wrote that it was "cool" in a post on X. Ben Parr, the COO of Moltbook, said he tested out the tech and saw inside his arm. Hank Green, a YouTuber and science communicator, had a more mixed reaction to the tech. In an X blog post, he wrote that he had "some frustrations" with how Midjourney promoted the product, and said that while ultrasound may be promising, it is not a replacement for MRI, CT, colonoscopy, or other scans. "If you walk away from this post with anything in your head let it be this... different scans do different things," Green wrote. "We still have all the ones we have because they all fill in gaps that other scans don't have. Adding another full-body scan does not replace any of the others, but I very much hope that it adds." Midjourney says the project is progressing at "maximum speed that's physically possible," but notes potential speed bumps. First is scaling. The company said it hopes to build 50,000 scanners worldwide by 2031. Second is regulatory approval. Midjourney said it is starting with "detailed body composition maps" and plans to submit test results to the FDA for expanded capabilities. Read the original article on Business Insider

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