Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, April 10th, 206.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

The U.S. government is taking the anthropic warning seriously.

Google is showing prediction markets alongside various search results.

Europeans are beginning to decouple from U.S. Tech, kicking the tires on SpaceX's actual business,

and of course, the week on Long Read Suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

There has been some chatter this week that, you know, what if that whole Anthropic is afraid to release a model

because it might break all the software thing was really nothing more than a marketing stunt?

Well, if it is a marketing stunt, these folks are taking it seriously.

Quoting Bloomberg, Treasury Secretary Scott Besent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned

Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that the latest artificial intelligence model

from Anthropic PBC would usher in an era of greater cyber risk.

Besant and Powell assembled the group at Treasury's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday to make sure banks

are aware of possible future risks raised by Anthropics' mythos and potential similar models

and are taking precautions to defend their systems, according to people familiar with the matter

who asked not to be identified, citing the private discussions. Many of the executives were in

town already for a meeting of the

Financial Services Forum, an advocacy group made up of the biggest lenders. A representative for

the Treasury didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the Fed declined

to comment as well. The previously unreported meeting arranged on short notice is another sign that regulators consider the possibility of a new breed of cyber attacks as well. The previously unreported meeting arranged on short notice is another sign that regulators

consider the possibility of a new breed of cyber attacks as one of the biggest risks facing

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