Bessent and Wiles met Anthropic’s Amodei in sign of thaw

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sources briefed on the meeting told Axios.

Anthropic is building tools that could have enormous implications for the federal government. But that same government is currently fighting Anthropic in court after the Pentagon declared it a “supply chain risk.”

The meeting points to a potential thaw. “This is a big problem. Everyone’s complaining. There’s all this drama. So this got elevated to Susie to hear Dario out, determine what is bullsh-t and start to plot a way forward,” a Trump adviser told Axios.

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