Scoop: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration.

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Anthropic pulled its top models offline after White House export controls; senior staff in D.C. to negotiate. Regulatory control of frontier AI models reshapes vendor risk—companies must now factor geopolitical decisions into foundation model sourcing.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Photo: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Senior technical Anthropic staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials and try to fix a dispute that has taken the company's top models offline, a source close to the company tells Axios.

Why it matters: Anthropic is mobilizing quickly to make amends with the Trump administration, after safety concerns resulted in sweeping export controls on its most powerful models, Mythos and Fable.