Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dines one-on-one with Trump at the White House after months of conflict
Trump confirmed the Sunday dinner, which comes while Anthropic is fighting a Pentagon supply-chain-risk designation in court.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was scheduled to have a private dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday evening. Trump confirmed the meeting, and Axios first reported it. According to TechCrunch and Al Jazeera, it would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men. The dinner follows months of open conflict between Anthropic and the administration. Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the company tried to put guardrails on how its technology is used, and Anthropic is challenging that designation in court. TechCrunch notes that some other administration officials have been friendlier to the company. The two men have recently taken opposite sides in the AI safety debate. Amodei released a plan to slow AI development, or at least to proceed more cautiously. Trump has claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax and has said he wants to rebrand the technology as 'super intelligence.' The same weekend, Saturday Night Live lampooned Amodei on its season premiere. No details of an agenda or any outcome were available in the reports. The meeting matters because Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon and the wider fight over federal AI oversight both depend on the administration's stance toward the company.