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

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to have dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House tonight, marking the first one-on-one meeting between the two. The meeting occurs amid a significant divide in their perspectives on AI; Amodei has advocated for a more cautious approach to AI development, while Trump has dismissed AI backlash as a "Democratic hoax" and expressed a desire to rebrand the technology as "super intelligence." The meeting follows a period of strained relations between Anthropic and the Trump administration. Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk due to the company's efforts to implement guardrails around its technology—a designation Anthropic is currently challenging in court—though other administration officials have maintained a more cooperative stance.