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US Commerce chief says Anthropic back on 'right side' with Trump, Axios reports
Tom Brown’s outreach to U.S. officials helped repair ties after the company fought Pentagon restrictions over its AI models.
- On Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic, marking a significant shift in the previously strained relationship between the government and the AI company.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had blocked Anthropic from military contracts over Claude AI usage; a judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company as a supply-chain risk in August.
- Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown appeared at a tech-focused G20 event in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Wednesday, working alongside National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross to repair ties with the administration.
- During an interview on Tuesday, Lutnick told Axios that Anthropic is "back on the right side" with the administration, confirming the company has resolved its prior disputes with the government.
- Brown emphasized that data centers represent enormous economic prosperity, urging G20 officials to grant building permits while noting modern designs can increase power availability for the electrical grid.
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The US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, said that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is back on the right side of the Trump government, according to an article on the Axis website published on Wednesday (2), suggesting that the tense relationship between the two sides improved. Lutnick made the comment days after an American judge gave Anthropic reason in the company's dispute with the US Armed Forces about the security of AI on…
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The US Commerce Secretary said that relations between AI company Anthropic and the Trump administration have improved, following a court ruling in favor of the company in a dispute with the military over the use of AI models.
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