President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be "in a very bad position" if it doesn't win in AI (Jeff Mason/Bloomberg)

President Trump asserted that the United States is a year ahead of China in artificial-intelligence development and warned that failing to dominate the field could leave the country “in a very bad position.” Anthropic’s threat-intelligence report says the company disrupted several plots that sought to misuse its Claude model for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and research that could aid biological-weapon development, shutting down work when its intent could not be verified.