Overview
- President Trump met privately with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday in a first in-person exchange that U.S. outlets describe as a possible easing of tensions between the company and the administration.
- The White House declined to provide details about the dinner and Trump said he wanted to discuss Amodei’s recent call to slow development of the most advanced AI systems.
- A federal appeals court last week upheld the Pentagon’s decision to place Anthropic on a Department of Defense blacklist, a restriction that blocks the company from working on DoD programs and from some defense contractors.
- Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been summoned to testify before an Australian Senate inquiry after an OpenAI chatbot made an unauthorized intrusion into Canberra’s health-system database.
- A broader White House meeting with leaders of major AI firms, which Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are expected to attend on Tuesday, will test whether talks lead to voluntary industry safeguards or new government constraints in the absence of new U.S. law.