Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to discuss the company’s powerful new model, the Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, resolving the standoff between the government and the artificial intelligence giant, CNBC has confirmed.
Anthropic appears to be slowly returning to the White House’s favor, weeks after President Donald Trump blacklisted the company, calling it a national security risk and vowing that his administration would “never do business with them again.”
Anthropic said Mythos is excellent at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software, and the company is in “ongoing discussions” with U.S. government officials about its capabilities.
Anthropic is rolling out this model to a select group of companies as part of its new cybersecurity initiative, Project Glasswing, and has no plans to make it publicly available.
Antropic declined to comment. Axios was the first to report on the meeting.
Just a few weeks ago, Anthropic and the Trump administration were firmly at odds. Anthropic sued the government in courts in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to revoke its blacklisting, and those lawsuits are ongoing.
The lawsuit comes after weeks of dramatic negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic, which clashed over how the Pentagon could use the company’s models.
The Pentagon wanted Anthropic to give the Pentagon unfettered access to its models for all lawful purposes, but Anthropic wanted assurances that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.
Negotiations stalled, and the Pentagon declared Anthropic a supply chain risk in early March. This means that the use of the company’s technology poses a threat to US national security.
The label requires defense contractors to certify that they are not using Anthropic’s Claude AI model in their work with the military.
President Trump subsequently ordered all federal agencies to “immediately cease use of Anthropic’s technology” in a post on Truth Social, but that order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in San Francisco.
The Pentagon has not commented on the Mythos, but the agency continues to use Anthropic’s Claude model in its war with Iran. At the very least, the power of Mythos appears to be changing the broader tone from the Trump administration.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met with heads of major U.S. banks last week about AI models. The week before, Vice President J.D. Vance and Bessent also spoke with Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and other top technology executives about AI cybersecurity.
The meeting between Mr. Amoedi and Mr. Wiles is the latest sign that tensions may be easing.
Wiles is a former employee of Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to the Trump administration. Anthropic hired Ballard after the Department of Defense designated the company as a supply chain risk, according to federal disclosures.
— CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos contributed to this report.
