WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- In late July, a malware package uploaded by an Anthropic AI model to PyPI, the public Python code repository, was downloaded by fifteen systems before researchers caught it. Credentials were harvested from some of those machines. The owners of the infected systems may not have been told. On Monday, the company that built that model was called to the White House.

Meta, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are all meeting with advisers to President Donald Trump this week, Reuters reported Monday, in what amounts to the broadest single convening of major AI developers by the federal government since artificial intelligence escaped the laboratory and started causing actual problems. The agenda, according to people familiar wit...