In Washington, the Trump administration held what both sides described as a “productive” meeting with Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot. The meeting comes at a sensitive moment: the Pentagon had recently designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that threatened to freeze the company out of lucrative government contracts.
The discussions signal an effort to find middle ground between the administration’s national security concerns and the commercial interests of one of America’s leading AI firms. The outcome could set a precedent for how the U.S. government manages its increasingly complex relationship with the fast-growing AI industry. [23]
