Sep 15, 2026 – 2.51amWashington | President Donald Trump has threatened artificial intelligence company Anthropic with legal action and slammed its chief executive Dario Amodei, doubling down on his rejection of calls to slow the technology’s development that have spooked investors.After Amodei published a weekend essay urging governments to enforce a slower pace of AI development, which elicited support from his two biggest rivals, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Trump accused the Anthropic CEO of “pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’,” in a social media post on Monday (Tuesday AEST).Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles