Thawing relations between Anthropic and the Trump administration? Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff meet with CEO Dario Amodei

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles personally met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the 17th, with the White House describing the talks as "constructive and productive." (Context: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: In another 6-12 months, Chinese open-source AI models could catch up to Mythos) (Background: Once boycotted by employees, Google returns to Pentagon AI project: Secret Gemini deployment negotiations underway) The attitude of various government departments toward top Silicon Valley AI companies has never been more divided. The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk earlier this year, yet the White House opened another door at the same time. The rift between Anthropic and the Trump administration originated from the collapse of a military contract negotiation. During the talks, Anthropic insisted on setting clear usage restrictions, refusing to allow its technology to be applied to autonomous weapons systems and large-scale domestic surveillance. This was a line the Department of Defense could not accept. After the negotiations broke down, the Pentagon immediately designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, effectively placing a warning label on it within the federal procurement system. Anthropic chose to fight back and is currently suing in court to challenge the Pentagon's administrative decision. Another entry point for this thaw in relations may be in the field of financial regulation. It is understood that Bessent and Fed Chair Powell are actively encouraging major banks to test Anthropic's newly launched Mythos model. This move is significant. If federal financial regulators proactively endorse Anthropic's enterprise clients, it would effectively clear compliance concerns for the deployment of Mythos on Wall Street. Compared to the stalemate in the defense sector, this Treasury Department route has become a side door for Anthropic to enter the federal ecosystem. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has also been appearing at government events during this period, indicating that the company is consciously advancing on multiple political tracks simultaneously. Behind this tug-of-war lies a deep division within Washington. According to sources close to the negotiations, apart from the Department of Defense, "almost every department" in the federal government is interested in adopting Anthropic's technology. The Treasury Department, the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, and other agencies have an urgent demand for the enterprise version of Claude, but the Pentagon's supply chain risk label has left the procurement departments of some agencies in a legal dilemma. This institutional-level division reflects the internal tension within the Trump administration regarding AI policy: security hawks want to pressure all AI companies that are unwilling to fully cooperate with military requirements, but the pragmatic needs of other departments are quietly pushing policy in the opposite direction.

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