Trump dined with the Anthropic CEO who called for AI slowdown

President Donald Trump had a late dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, the first one-on-one meeting between the two men after months of tension between the White House and the AI company. The dinner followed weeks in which Trump had dismissed Amodei's calls for the artificial intelligence industry to slow the pace of its development, according to The Washington Post.

The gathering highlighted a persistent divide in approach between the administration and one of the nation's leading AI firms. Trump has pursued policies intended to accelerate AI development, while Anthropic, under Amodei's leadership, has pushed for greater caution and stronger guardrails around the technology as it advances. That disagreement had defined the relationship between the company and the White House for months, with the Sunday dinner representing the first direct, one-on-one engagement between Trump and Amodei since the tensions began.

No further details emerged about what was discussed at the dinner or whether it altered either side's approach to AI policy. The meeting nonetheless marked a notable moment in a relationship between Trump and Amodei that had been defined largely by public friction rather than personal engagement, coming just weeks after Trump had publicly brushed aside Amodei's warnings about the pace of AI development.

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