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Trump confirms he had 'no idea' Anthropic's Amodei met with White House about Mythos
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The White House said its meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was "productive and constructive" on Friday, the latest sign of a potential thaw in the standoff between the government and the leading artificial intelligence company.
Key facts
- The week before, Vice President JD Vance and Bessent also met with Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and other top tech execs about AI cybersecurity
- The White House said its meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was "productive and constructive" on Friday, the latest sign of a potential thaw in the standoff between the government
- Trump then ordered all federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology" in a Truth Social post, but that directive has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in San
- Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell met with the heads of the top U.S. banks last week about the AI model
Summary
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was one of the officials in attendance, according to a source familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the meeting was private. "We discussed opportunities for collaboration, as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology," the White House said . Anthropic is rolling the model out to a select group of companies as part of Project Glasswing, a new cybersecurity initiative, and does not have plans to release it publicly. Anthropic sued the government to try to reverse its blacklisting in courts in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and those cases are ongoing.
The week before, Vice President JD Vance and Bessent also met with Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and other top tech execs about AI cybersecurity. Anthropic hired Ballard after the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk, according to federal disclosures. — CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos and Megan Cassella contributed to this report.