Anthropic CEO Amodei Meets Trump at White House as Pentagon Blacklist Survives Appeal
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Updated · CNBC · Sep 27
Anthropic CEO Amodei Meets Trump at White House as Pentagon Blacklist Survives Appeal
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Sep 27
Summary
Sunday’s private White House dinner will be the first one-on-one meeting between Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, offering a chance to repair a relationship strained ahead of Anthropic’s expected IPO.
Earlier this month, Amodei angered Trump by urging the AI industry to slow advanced model development and accept more government oversight; Trump responded that AI needed only a “strong and smart” president.
Friday’s appeals court ruling kept in place the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring the military and defense contractors from using its models after February talks over military access collapsed.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House tech officials had recently signaled improving ties, saying Anthropic was again cooperating with the administration even as Defense Department hostility hardened.