The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic's Dario Amodei
Key takeaways
- “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage,” said one person directly familiar with the calls.
- But the administration has had multiple calls with Anthropic in recent days, encouraged by the fact that Brown and Anthropic’s public policy chief, Sarah Heck, have been leading the outreach.
- The talks have been both at the high level and at the working-group level, involving technical staff from both sides.
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Photo-illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story The Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately, according to people familiar with the matter: They don’t have to deal with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, because he’s been replaced in meetings about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI model by his cofounder Tom Brown.
“Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage,” said one person directly familiar with the calls.
The administration has not yet lifted the export controls that took Anthropic’s most powerful models offline on June 12 after the National Security Agency affirmed there were ways to disable guardrails and access the more powerful capabilities of the company’s restricted Mythos model.