Trump dines with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after months of bitter AI feud

President Trump broke bread with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner Sunday — in what appeared to be a remarkable thaw just two days after a federal appeals court upheld a Pentagon move to exclude the artificial intelligence firm as a supply-chain risk.The dinner marked the first reported one-on-one meeting between the commander-in-chief and the techie after months of bruising clashes over how the military can use Anthropic’s Claude models, according to Axios and the Wall Street Journal.Trump personally invited Amodei after the AI guru missed last week’s White House state dinner because of a scheduling conflict, Axios reported.The sit-down appeared to mark a striking shift for Amodei, whose company has spent much of the year battling the Trump administration in court — and whose views on AI safety have drawn fire from the president and his allies.As recently as Sept.

14, Trump mockingly called Amodei a “perfect little angel” in slamming his calls for AI guardrails.Trump confirmed the meeting before it took place and described Amodei as highly respected, according to the Journal.The president has nevertheless been making clear that he remains wary of calls to pump the brakes on AI development as the US races China for technological supremacy.“We have to be a little careful,” he said in a recent “All In” podcast interview cited by the Journal, while dismissing dire warnings that AI could take over the world as a “hoax.”“That doesn’t mean we are going to stop an industry,” Trump added.Amodei has staked out a starkly different position on the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI.Anthropic has pushed for greater oversight of frontier models, with Amodei recently calling for slowing the pace of capability growth — even as he has argued that the US needs to maintain a technological advantage over China.The two sides’ biggest rupture to date came over the Pentagon’s use of Claude.Anthropic had already allowed th...