Trump administration shifts stance, no longer designates Anthropic as national security threat.

AI companies respond "very quickly" and "responsibly." During an interview with the Axios program, US President Donald Trump stated that last week he may have considered the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security threat, but he has since changed his view.

Anthropic senior technical personnel plan to meet with Trump administration officials earlier this week to discuss the controversy over foreign users' access to its most advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5. After Trump ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing these models, the company disabled access to these models for all users last week.

When asked whether he would consider Anthropic or its CEO Dario Amodei a national security threat, Trump said: "Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe."

Trump told Axios that Amodei responded to the government's export control directives "very quickly" and "responsibly." The US President and other G7 leaders met with technology industry leaders, including Amodei, at a summit in France this week.

According to Axios, Trump did not rule out using emergency powers under the Defense Production Act against Anthropic. When discussing the Defense Production Act, Trump said: "I have the authority to use many things. But I'm not certain I need to use it."

When asked to comment on Trump's interview, an Anthropic spokesperson stated: "We appreciate the government's ongoing collaboration to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We are committed to working together with them to achieve our shared objective of protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring that the United States maintains its lead in artificial intelligence."