Trump Plans White House Dinner With Anthropic CEO

President Donald Trump planned to host Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday evening, according to people familiar with the planning and a U.S. official. The reports did not confirm that the dinner took place or establish what the two planned to discuss. The proposed meeting would bring Trump and Amodei together privately for the first time, according to accounts of the planning. It comes after months of strained relations between the administration and Anthropic, the company behind the Claude artificial intelligence chatbot. The sources did not say whether the dinner’s agenda included the dispute over Anthropic’s government work. The relationship deteriorated this year amid a contract dispute with the Pentagon and the administration’s designation of Anthropic as a national security or supply-chain risk. The designation restricted the company’s work with the federal government. The sources describe disagreements over the use of AI in military applications, but do not provide a detailed account of the current terms or practical scope of the restrictions.