Trump’s Anthropic restrictions rattle U.S. allies as AI leaders gather at G-7 - The Washington Post

The White House export ban on Anthropic’s latest models cast a shadow at the summit, as industry figures urged global standards and democratic cooperation. Just days after the U.S. government banned foreign nationals from using Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence models, executives from the top labs urged the leaders of Western democracies to work together to reap the benefits of the AI revolution. At a working lunch Wednesday during the Group of Seven summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on world leaders to share the benefits of AI among democratic nations and suggested it would be possible to coordinate the trade of powerful AI technologies among them, while excluding China, according to a person familiar with the discussion who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share privileged information. The summit marked the first face-to-face meeting between Amodei and Trump since the administration took the extraordinary step Friday of restricting Anthropic’s latest and

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