U.S. Government Makes Peace with Anthropic After Months-Long Dispute

[Financial News] The Donald Trump administration said it now trusts artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, with which it had been at odds for months.
Howard Lutnick, the U.S. commerce secretary, said in an interview with the U.S. political news outlet Axios during a Group of Twenty (G20) innovation ministers' meeting that "We trust Anthropic" when asked whether he trusted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. He added, "They did what we asked. They came back to the right side."
Anthropic and the Trump administration had been clashing since February over the scope of AI's military applications. Anthropic had refused the Trump administration's demand to remove safeguards preventing AI from being used in autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance.
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) consequently designated Anthropic an "unreliable partner" and a "supply-chain risk." Such measures had previously been applied only to foreign companies suspected of supporting espionage activities.
A federal court in the United States ruled on the 27th of last month that "the DoD violated Anthropic's constitutional rights." Against this backdrop, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown reportedly played a decisive role in restoring relations by holding several conversations with Lutnick and Sean Cairncross, director of the White House Office of National Cyber. Brown is also said to have negotiated with the United States Department of Commerce to secure the lifting of export controls on Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Meanwhile, Brown gave a positive assessment of President Donald Trump's data-center policy at the G20 innovation ministers' meeting venue on the 2nd local time. He said, "I really liked President Trump's post earlier this week. He pointed out that data centers are a source of tremendous prosperity." He added, "Data centers create countless jobs. They increase tax revenue."
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