The White House's characterization of the Anthropic session as an 'introductory meeting' about scaling technology and balancing innovation with safety does more institutional work than it appears. 'Introductory' is diplomatic cover for a relationship reset — the administration is not acknowledging the prior blacklist, it is routing around it. The draft guidance to restore federal agency access makes the direction explicit: Anthropic's safety positioning has converted a compliance liability into a procurement argument. Labs that can walk into the White House and discuss 'shared protocols' are labs that will write…