President Trump is set to have Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over for dinner at the White House this Sunday.
Axios reporters Maria Curi and Marc Caputo first reported the dinner, citing people familiar with the plans. The event is described as a private, one-on-one sit-down between Trump and Amodei, said to be their first such meeting, per those sources. No agenda or guest list beyond the two principals has been reported. The Next Web says it has not independently verified that the dinner is happening.
Anthropic has positioned itself as the safety-focused counterweight to more bullish rivals, and its leadership has kept a lower public profile in Washington than some peers do. A private, one-on-one audience with the president is a different kind of access than a policy testimony or a press conference. It also comes as the administration weighs how much to lean on AI companies for issues like chip export rules and federal contracts.
Whether it produces anything more than a nice meal is the part nobody has confirmed yet.