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Bessent and Wiles met Anthropic's Amodei in sign of thaw
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Key facts
- Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Image Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sources briefed
- What they're saying: An Anthropic spokesperson described the meeting afterwards as "a productive discussion on how Anthropic and the U.S. government can work together on key shared priorities such
- Two before the White House meeting that a deal along those lines could be struck soon
- One concern is that Mythos and other cutting-edge AI tools could allow nefarious hackers to breach the U.S. financial system
Summary
Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Image Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sources briefed on the meeting told Axios. Anthropic is building tools that could have enormous implications for the federal government. So this got elevated to Susie to hear Dario out, determine what is bullsh-t and start to plot a way forward," a Trump adviser told Axios. The discussion covered how Anthropic is safeguarding its code and how the company makes decisions around things like when and how to release new models.
During weeks of bitter and ultimately failed negotiations, some in the Pentagon grew to loathe Anthropic and Amodei.