Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Friday as his company remains in a legal battle with the Trump administration. File Photo by Will Oliver/UPI | License Photo
Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Friday as his company remains in a legal battle with the Trump administration.
The meeting will take place at the White House with Amodei expected to discuss a resolution after the Pentagon banned any use of Anthropic, Axios first reported and CNN and The Washington Post report, citing unnamed sources.
Anthropic’s AI model Claude was the only AI tool used by the Pentagon’s classified network until President Donald Trump announced the government would stop using it. This was in response to Anthropic refusing to allow the military to use Claude for drones and mass surveillance, including domestic surveillance.
The Pentagon then listed Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
Anthropic sued the Trump administration in February, calling the decision to ban the company from all government contracts and label it a supply chain risk “retaliation.”
Last month, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s ban and labeling of Anthropic is likely illegal.
Anthropic has announced a new AI model, Mythos, which the White House Office of Management and Budget said it is preparing to allow agencies access to, Bloomberg reports.
Anthropic says its new AI model is capable of finding security weaknesses in computer code which could fix weaknesses. The cybersecurity benefits and risks are being reviewed by the White House and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services in the Rayburn House Office Building near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
