Dario Amodei

The biggest names in AI are walking into the White House today. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will sit down Tuesday with the heads of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir, plus OpenAI’s president, for a luncheon meant to get Washington and Silicon Valley talking the same language about AI safety. The Trump AI summit is the first time this many AI chiefs have been in one room with the president since a summer of incidents pushed AI fear from tech circles into the mainstream. And the timing is awkward: two days ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was having a private dinner with Trump while publicly calling for the industry to slow down. On Monday, he ducked reporters on Capitol Hill who asked about it. ...

Donald Trump sat down for dinner with Dario Amodei on Sunday night. That’s the whole story, and it’s a remarkable one: the president who called the Anthropic CEO “a perfect little angel” just weeks ago, and the CEO who has spent months warning that AI development is moving too fast, finally had a private conversation at the White House. The dinner on Sept 27 was the first reported one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to Axios, which first reported the meeting before Trump confirmed it himself. Trump announced it during a Fox News interview at the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Illinois, using the same appearance to make clear he isn’t buying Amodei’s central argument. Slowing AI development, he said, would open the door for China. ...