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The White House is planning to order U.S. agencies to partner with AI firms to protect networks from AI-enabled cyber attacks, though the order would stop short of mandating government approval for cutting-edge models, Bloomberg's Maggie Eastland and Courtney Subramanian report, citing people familiar with the mater. A draft directive from President Trump would overhaul existing cybersecurity information-sharing programs to include AI companies and address threats posed by the emerging tech, the authors note. Companies in AI software include Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta (META), OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Alphabet's GoogleDeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise more than $2B in a new round of funding, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg's Rebecca Torrence and Mark Bergen. Thrive Capital, which led Isomorphic's first funding round last year, is set to lead the new financing and Alphabet is also participating, according to the report.

Vice President JD Vance expressed alarm on a recent call with technology CEOs over new AI models such as Anthropic's Mythos, The Wall Street Journal's Amrith Ramkumar, Brian Schwartz, and Natalie Andrews report. The White House is weighing an executive order that could create a formal oversight process for the most advanced AI models, and Washington and Beijing are weighing the launch of official discussions about the risks posed by AI ahead of next week's summit in China, the report notes. "We all need to work together on this," Vance told CEOs, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Elon Musk of SpaceX, Alphabet's (GOOGL) Sundar Pichai, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft (MSFT), according to people familiar with the matter.