The Trump White House Is over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reportedly lost influence with the Trump White House, marking a shift in the relationship between the AI company and the administration.
Background
Anthropic is the AI company behind Claude, a leading large language model. CEO Dario Amodei is a former OpenAI executive who co-founded Anthropic to focus on "AI safety" — building powerful AI systems while trying to make them less risky. This WIRED piece reports that the Trump administration has cooled on Amodei, likely because Anthropic's cautious, safety-first stance clashes with the administration's tech-deregulation push and embrace of rapid AI development. The tension highlights a growing split: the Biden-era approach of safety regulation vs. the Trump approach of "move fast and let markets decide." Amodei had previously been seen as a key industry voice in Washington, making this shift in access noteworthy.