Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic - POLITICO
A series of tense calls between Anthropic’s CEO and administration officials on Friday underscore how the White House is wrestling with advanced AI models. CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei speaks onstage during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, on Dec. 3, 2025. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The Trump administration’s decision to impose sweeping export controls on Anthropic followed a frantic 24-hour effort by senior officials to convince the company to voluntarily pull a newly released artificial intelligence model that officials believed posed security risks, according to two administration officials and a senior White House official, who like others in this story were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the episode. The move, which followed multiple tense calls between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Cyber Director
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