Anthropic CEO Meets Wiles as Pentagon Feud Thaws
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- Dario Amodei is set to meet White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, with Axios calling it a breakthrough in resolving Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon.
- Anthropic remains blacklisted by the Trump administration even as officials negotiate access to its Mythos AI model, per CNN and Axios headlines.
- Steve Bannon backed Anthropic's rejection of the Pentagon deal, telling The Hill the technology is "almost too dangerous" and that Anthropic "had it right."
- Yoshua Bengio, an AI pioneer, told Fortune that Mythos's cybersecurity capabilities demand urgent international cooperation and highlight risks of AI power concentration.
- Mythos is heading toward federal use as the Pentagon ban falters, per Metacurity, with the Wall Street Journal framing the Friday meeting as the feud thawing.
Why it matters: The Friday meeting marks a potential thaw in a fight that had kept Anthropic's Mythos model out of federal use. The unusual lineup — Steve Bannon backing the company and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warning of AI power concentration — shows the Pentagon dispute has become a proxy fight over who controls advanced AI.
