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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, on April 17, 2026, to discuss collaboration and safety protocols for its new, powerful Mythos AI model, marking the first dialogue since an earlier dispute over AI usage.
This meeting signals a potential thawing of relations after months of contentious talks, which saw the Pentagon place a supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic and President Trump publicly criticize the company on Truth Social for refusing to remove guardrails against military or surveillance use. The core agenda addressed growing fears surrounding Anthropic's recently launched Mythos model, announced April 7, which is currently being deployed to a select group of companies under "Project Glasswing" as the Claude Mythos Preview.
Experts, including TJ Marlin, CEO of Guardrail Technologies, warn that Mythos's advanced coding and agentic capabilities grant it an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities, posing a significant threat, particularly to the banking industry's legacy systems. Government officials in the U.S., Canada, and Britain have already engaged top banking officials to discuss these threats.
Both the White House and Anthropic described the meeting as "productive," focusing on shared priorities like cybersecurity, America's lead in AI, and AI safety, with the White House confirming plans for similar discussions with other leading AI companies.
