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- Dario Amodei is set to have dinner with President Trump at the White House, in what will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two.
- Axios first reported the dinner plans, which TechCrunch subsequently confirmed with a source familiar with Amodei's schedule.
- Amodei was lampooned on Saturday Night Live's season premiere the same weekend as the scheduled White House dinner.
- Trump has dismissed the AI safety backlash as a "Democratic hoax" and wants to rebrand the technology as "super intelligence," while Amodei released a plan to slow AI development or proceed with more caution.
- The Pentagon earlier this year designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk over the company's attempt to add guardrails to its technology, a designation Anthropic is fighting in court.
- Despite that designation, other Trump administration officials have taken a friendlier stance toward Anthropic.
Why it matters: The dinner gives Amodei a direct line to the president while the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation — which Anthropic is actively contesting in court — remains unresolved, making this a rare opportunity to negotiate federal access or press the company's AI safety case in person.
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