Credit: TechCrunch President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news for Axios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two, according to Axios. TNW has not independently confirmed the dinner.
TNW is owned by Tekpon. Anthropic’s Claude is listed on Tekpon’s marketplace. Amodei missed last week’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, which OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai attended, because of a scheduling conflict. Trump then invited him personally to Sunday’s dinner, Axios reported.
On Tuesday, Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are due to meet tech CEOs on AI at the White House. Johnson has said the talks will cover the companies’ responsibility to keep AI safe. Anthropic’s ties with the White House have had ups and downs this year. In April, the White House opposed the company’s plan to widen access to its Mythos model.
In June, after meeting Amodei at the G7 summit, Trump said he no longer saw Anthropic as a national security threat. Even so, some top officials had told Trump not to meet him, Axios reported. The dinner also comes after Amodei called this month for the whole AI industry to slow down, a call Trump has brushed aside. “President Trump has been clear: America will lead the world in Super Intelligence, while protecting American consumers,” a White House official told Axios.
