GoKawiilAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei to dine one-on-one with Trump at White House
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have a private dinner with President Trump at the White House, according to Axios and confirmed by a source to TechCrunch. It will be their first one-on-one meeting, coming after Amodei's SNL parody appearance this same weekend.
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The meeting follows public friction between the two, as Amodei has pushed for slower, more cautious AI development while Trump has dismissed AI safety concerns and favored branding the technology as 'super intelligence.' Anthropic has also clashed with the Pentagon, which labeled it a supply-chain risk over its guardrails on military use, a designation the company is contesting in court, so the dinner could signal an attempt by either side to smooth relations amid ongoing policy disputes.
- Amodei and Trump will hold their first known private meeting, over dinner at the White House.
- The two have publicly disagreed on AI safety, with Trump dismissing concerns Amodei has raised.
- Anthropic is separately fighting a Pentagon supply-chain risk designation tied to its AI guardrails.
Source: techcrunch.com — Anthony Ha, 2026-09-27
Published there as: “Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump”
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