The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
The Trump administration has replaced CEO Dario Amodei with co-founder Tom Brown for high-stakes meetings. Officials report that negotiations are improving after Amodei was described as a "weirdo" and difficult to deal with. These talks concern a restrictive export-control directive on the Claude Fable 5 model.
What changed
Anthropic has shifted its representation in White House negotiations from CEO Dario Amodei to Tom Brown and Sarah Heck.
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Trump Administration Replaces Anthropic CEO in White House Talks
confidence 90%The Trump administration has replaced CEO Dario Amodei with co-founder Tom Brown for high-stakes meetings. Officials report that negotiations are improving after Amodei was described as a "weirdo" and difficult to deal with. These talks concern a restrictive export-control directive on the Claude Fable 5 model.
What's confirmed:
- Co-founder Tom Brown has replaced CEO Dario Amodei in high-stakes White House meetings.
- The Trump administration is now working with Tom Brown and public policy head Sarah Heck.
- The Mythos model identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems.
- The N.S.A. lost access to a powerful AI model during a dispute with Anthropic.
- A legal tech firm is suing the U.S. over an order limiting foreign access to top-tier Anthropic models.
- A customer has sued the U.S. government over the loss of access to the Fable AI model.
Still unconfirmed:
- Donald Trump's blocking of Anthropic is capricious and chaotic.