Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic.
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Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its latest model from the market Friday night, two administration officials, a person familiar with the discussions and a person close to the company told POLITICO, which is — like Business Insider — part of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network.It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases the federal government's Friday action, which had barred Anthropic from allowing non-U.S. users to access its newest model because of potential security vulnerabilities, a senior White House official said. But the official left the door open to the possibility that it can be done quickly."That's up to Anthropic," the official said.The company raced to send senior leaders with research and safeguard expertise to D.C. after multiple hourslong calls among Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross over the weekend, said the officials, who like others quoted in this story were granted anonymity to describe the discussions. Anthropic head of public policy Sarah Heck was also present on those calls.Monday's in-person meetings, held by Commerce and Cairncross' office, were more technical and were led by staff, including Chris Fall, who heads Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the person familiar with the discussions said.Anthropic gave a presentation to administration officials, explaining Anthropic's cybersecurity safeguards in hopes of moving past the restrictions, the administration official said.Representatives from Anthropic included Logan Graham, who evaluates and stress-tests models as part of the company's Frontier Red Team; Dave Orr, the company's head of safeguards; and Nicholas Carlini, its lead security researcher, a person close to Anthropic said.
