{"id":537317,"date":"2026-04-18T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537317\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:28:09","slug":"white-house-and-anthropic-hold-productive-meeting-amid-fears-over-mythos-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537317\/","title":{"rendered":"White House and Anthropic hold &#8216;productive&#8217; meeting amid fears over Mythos model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the first time a US company had been publicly given the label, which means a technology is not secure enough for government use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthropic has been used in high-level government and military work since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It argued in court that the label was simple retaliation by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, because Amodei had refused to grant the Pentagon unfettered use of its AI tools over fears of Anthropic being used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While a federal court in California has largely agreed, a federal appeals court has denied the firm&#8217;s request to temporarily block the supply chain risk designation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevertheless, Anthropic&#8217;s tools are still in use at many of the government agencies that had been using them before the designation, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until Friday, the White House had said little positive about Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Trump directed all government agencies to stop using Anthropic, he wrote on social media that the company was run by &#8220;left wing nut jobs&#8221;, who were attempting to &#8220;strong arm&#8221; defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t need it, we don&#8217;t want it, and will not do business with them again!&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As he arrived for an event in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, Trump was asked by reporters about the Anthropic CEO&#8217;s visit to the White House. The president said he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; about the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the first time a US company had been publicly given the label, which means a technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-537317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}