Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will join President Donald Trump for a private White House dinner on Sunday, marking their first one-on-one meeting after Amodei missed Trump’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping because of a scheduling conflict. The White House framed the engagement around a push for U.S. leadership in “Super Intelligence” while protecting consumers. The meeting arrives as Anthropic prepares for a likely blockbuster IPO and follows public friction: Amodei’s recent call for the industry to slow advanced model development and his past support for Kamala Harris drew sharp criticism from the president, even as other tech leaders attended the state event and government officials signaled renewed engagement with Anthropic.
Tensions have also played out over national-security and procurement issues. Negotiations with the Department of Defense collapsed after the Pentagon sought broad access to Anthropic’s models and the company insisted on restrictions against fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance. The DOD designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, blocking military and defense-contractor use; a federal appeals panel upheld that designation, while Anthropic retains the option of further appeals. Commerce officials and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have engaged more cooperatively with Anthropic recently, and the private dinner serves as a high-stakes opportunity to repair regulatory and security rifts ahead of the company’s public offering.
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