Trump Administration Restores Trust in AI Firm Anthropic

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the Trump administration has restored its trust in Anthropic, stating the AI company is now "back on the right side" after complying with government requests. The reconciliation follows months of conflict over national security and AI safeguards, which included the Commerce Department imposing export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models in June.

The thaw follows a legal victory for the company. In August, a federal judge in San Francisco overturned a Department of Defense decision that had blacklisted Anthropic as a supply-chain risk and blocked it from military contracts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously restricted the company after Anthropic refused to allow its Claude AI models to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown helped repair the relationship through discussions with Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross. During a G20 tech event in North Carolina, Brown appeared with Lutnick and praised Donald Trump for viewing data centers as sources of prosperity. Brown also urged officials to grant permits for data center construction and affirmed the company's support for the administration's ratepayer pledge.