Anthropic's CEO met with White House officials on AI safety even as the Trump administration refused to rule out further sanctions against the company.
Key takeaways
The institutional logic of Anthropic's position is harder to defend in public than in a policy document. The company built its market identity on the claim that safety-first development justified its existence as a separate entity from OpenAI — and that identity has now become the explicit friction point with a White House that directed federal agencies to drop Anthropic's AI after the company declined to agree to unrestricted government use. The CEO's White House meeting [2] does not resolve that contradiction — it extends it into a new venue. Anthropic is now arguing that it is both a responsible AI safety partner and a company with legal limits on what its models can be used for. The administration has already answered which of those it finds useful.
Methodology
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