Trump tells Axios he no longer views Anthropic as national security threat
Trump said Anthropic has behaved responsibly and may no longer face the same restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
- President Donald Trump signaled yesterday he may ease restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after meeting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Wednesday at the G7 summit in France. Trump stated he no longer views the company as a national security threat.
- The dispute originated in March 2026 when the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the company refused to remove safety guardrails from military-facing products. A June 12 Commerce Department directive then required government approval before foreign nationals could access the models.
- Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pitched a US-led AI coalition to G7 leaders, securing direct access to Trump. Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO in early June with an approximate $965 billion valuation, making de-escalation signals critical for investor confidence.
- Trump described the regulatory situation as creating a "tremendous liability" for the administration, acknowledging backlash from industry and allies. Yet the Pentagon designation and Commerce Department directive remain formally in effect, requiring bureaucratic steps beyond a single interview to reverse.
- While Trump appears willing to negotiate rather than escalate, officials noted the formal restrictions persist unchanged. Whether these verbal signals translate into concrete policy adjustments remains an open question, as the Commerce Department operates with considerable independence on export controls.
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US President Donald Trump said he might have considered the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a threat to national security last week, but that he no longer sees it that way, according to an interview on “The Axios Show,” published this Friday (19). Members of Anthropic’s senior technical team were scheduled to meet with Trump administration officials earlier this week to discuss a dispute over foreign access to its most advanced artifi…
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
President Donald Trump said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from the administration’s aggressive posture toward the AI company over the past three months. Asked whether he considers Anthropic a threat, Trump replied, “Well, not now. But a week ago, maybe.” […] This story continues at The Next Web
Trump Says He No Longer Views Anthropic as National Security Threat
President Donald Trump said he no longer views the artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic as a national security threat. “We have a situation with Anthropic, and we didn’t like what they were doing, and so far I think they behaved very responsibly to our request,” Trump told Axios’s Marc Caputo in an interview that aired on June 19. Caputo then asked Trump if he still viewed Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, as a threat to national secu…
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