Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks during the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei meets with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Friday to discuss the company’s powerful new project. Myth model It was announced earlier this month, CNBC confirmed, a thaw in the standoff between the government and the leading AI company.
Anthropic seems to be back in the good graces of the White House, a few weeks after President Donald Trump blacklisted the company and called it a national security risk, stating that his administration “I will no longer do business with them”.
Mythos excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws in software, according to Anthropic, and the company said it has “ongoing discussions” with U.S. government officials about its capabilities. Anthropic is rolling out the model to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative and has no plans to make it public.
Anthropic declined to comment. Axios was first to report the meeting.
Read more CNBC tech newsJust weeks before, Anthropic and the Trump administration were firmly apart. Anthropic sued the government to attempt to overturn his blacklisting in courts in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and those cases are ongoing.
The trials followed a few dramatic weeks negotiations between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, which clashed over how the agency could use the company’s models. The DOD wanted Anthropic to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its models for any legal purposes, while Anthropic wanted assurance that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.
Talks have stalled and the DOD has said Anthropogenic, a risk for the supply chain in early March, meaning use of the company’s technology would threaten U.S. national security. The label requires defense contractors to certify that they are not using Anthropic’s Claude AI models in their work with the military.
Trump then ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology.” a post on Truth Socialbut this directive was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in San Francisco.
It’s unclear what the Defense Department thinks of Mythos, but the agency has continued to use Anthropic’s models in the Iran war. At the very least, the power of the Myth appears to be changing the broader tone of the Trump administration.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell met with the leaders of the largest American banks last week on the AI model. The previous week, Vice President JD Vance and Bessent also met with Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other top tech executives about AI cybersecurity.
Amoedi’s meeting with Wiles is the latest signal that tensions may be easing.
–CNBC MacKenzie Sigalos contributed to this report
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