Anthropic CEO Amodei to dine with Trump at White House — SkimNews
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- Dario Amodei will dine one-on-one with Trump at the White House on Sunday evening — the first private meeting between the two, first reported by Axios.
- Trump told Fox News the US is "maybe a year and a half up on China" and dismissed Amodei's call for a pause in AI development, calling the Anthropic chief "a perfect little angel."
- The dinner follows a federal appeals court ruling two days earlier that upheld the Pentagon's classification of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," barring the US military from using its models.
- Anthropic was sanctioned by the Trump administration after refusing in February to allow its tools for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.
- Amodei was absent from Thursday's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, which was attended by rival OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
- Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are scheduled to meet Tuesday with executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
Why it matters: The Sunday dinner comes just two days after Anthropic lost its Pentagon appeal and amid "months of open conflict" with the administration — yet the two are sitting down privately while rival Sam Altman attended Xi's state dinner. The one-on-one positions Amodei for direct influence over Tuesday's Trump-Johnson sit-down with OpenAI, Google, and Meta executives on AI policy.
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