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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to have dinner with President Trump at the White House

Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump

This is their first one-on-one meeting. Amodei recently proposed slowing frontier AI development, while Trump has called the AI backlash a Democratic hoax and wants to rebrand AI as 'super intelligence.' The two are on opposite sides of the AI safety debate. Anthropic's relationship with the administration is already strained: the Pentagon labeled it a supply-chain risk, which Anthropic is fighting in court, though other officials have signaled a thaw. The post does not disclose what the dinner will cover.

Why it matters: First solo meeting between Anthropic's CEO and Trump, with diametrically opposed AI safety stances and an ongoing lawsuit over a Pentagon supply-chain risk label. Enough conflict and substance to feature, but the post doesn't disclose the agenda or expected outcomes, so capped...

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