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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set to meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles amid AI fight: reports

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“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was reportedly set to meet Friday with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, in the wake of a bitter feud in which the Pentagon blacklisted the AI giant and the exec lashed out at the Trump administration.”
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Multiple web search results report that Dario Amodei was scheduled to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles following a dispute involving the Pentagon blacklisting Anthropic and Amodei's criticism of the Trump administration.
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“The West Wing meeting was expected as leaders in the US and beyond have been grappling with Anthropic’s Mythos, a new artificial-intelligence model that the company itself says could create widespread online disruption due to its ability to breach cybersecurity defenses.”
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Two independent web search results mention concerns over Anthropic's Mythos model causing widespread online disruption or enabling advanced cyberattacks, linking this concern to meetings involving US officials.
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web search NEUTRAL — The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, according to…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/10/us-summon…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic Model Scare Sparks Urgent Bessent, Powell Warning to Bank CEOs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an emergency meeting with major bank CEOs in Washington to address concerns that Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos, c…
https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-04-10-eb21
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“The White House confab comes as Anthropic has been in discussions to provide government agencies with advance access to the system, according to the Wall Street Journal.”
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Multiple web search results indicate that the US government was preparing to make a version of Mythos available to federal agencies, citing reports from The Wall Street Journal and other sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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“The administration has convened meetings involving Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with senior execs including Amodei, to coordinate preparations for Mythos.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that discussions or meetings involving JD Vance, Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, and Amodei regarding coordination for Mythos took place.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a p…
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“Instead of a public release, Anthropic has unveiled “Project Glasswing,” a plan to share Mythos with a handpicked group of about 40 companies including Amazon, Apple, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase and Nvidia.”
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Multiple web search results detail 'Project Glasswing' as an initiative involving Anthropic and listing Amazon, Apple, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, and Nvidia among participating companies for security testing.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · Introduction Today we’re announcing Project Glasswing 1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase,…
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · The initiative, called Project Glasswing, allows companies, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, and Nvidia, to use Anthr…
https://fortune.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-claude-mythos-model…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 9, 2026 · Anthropic has announced the launch of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative based on the Claude Mythos model to detect and correct vulnerabilities in critical open-source softwar…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/04/09/anthrop…
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“After the company refused to remove safeguards blocking its AI models from being used to power autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans, the Pentagon last month labeled the company a supply-chain risk — barring it from working with the Department of War and prohibiting contractors from using Anthropic’s AI models in their work with the Pentagon.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the company refused to grant unfettered access to its AI tools due to concerns over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes.
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“The White House directed all federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s tech, too.”
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The evidence shows that President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI technology. However, the evidence does not state that the White House directed *all* federal agencies to discontinue using the technology; rather, it attributes this directive specifically to President Trump.
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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 28, 2026 · President Donald Trump directed all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic on Friday, announcing the move on his Truth Social website roughly one hour before the Pentagon’…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/trump-orders-all-fe…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 27, 2026 · President Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, a directive that could vastly complicate government intelligen…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/anthropic-mil…
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“Meanwhile, Amodei lashed out at the president in a leaked internal email, accusing the Department of War of targeting Anthropic for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump.””
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Multiple web search results confirm that Dario Amodei leaked an internal memo accusing the Department of War of targeting Anthropic for not providing 'dictator-style praise to Trump.'
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apologized for the "tone" he took in a leaked internal memo criticizing the Trump administration. "It was a difficult day for the company," Amodei wrote in a statement ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — The exec said he's sorry for "the tone" of a 1,600-word internal missive that accused the Department of War of targeting Anthropic for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump."
https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/business/anthropic-ceo-apologi…
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web search NEUTRAL — A confrontation between Donald Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei moved into the spotlight after an internal memo written by the AI executive leaked publicly, revealing unusually direct ...
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/trump-and-anthropic-ceo…
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“The exec later apologized, as his company fought the blacklisting in court.”
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“Still, the feds have been prepping a version of Mythos for key agencies, according to Bloomberg.”
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“Recent days have seen staff from two large agencies contact Anthropic about integrating Mythos into their cyber-defense projects, Politico reported.”
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“Anthropic has been working with lobbyists with White House ties as it tries to ease the tensions, according to the Journal.”
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“Following the blacklisting, the company hired mega-lobbyist Brian Ballard, the publication reported.”
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“He raised over $50 million for Trump’s 2024 presidential run.”
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“The company works with Carlos Trujillo, a veteran of the first Trump White House, too.”
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“The Pentagon reached agreements with Anthropic rivals OpenAI and xAI to use their models in classified settings.”
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