US Commerce chief says Anthropic back on 'right side' with Trump, Axios reports
Tom Brown’s outreach to U.S. officials helped repair ties after the company fought Pentagon restrictions over its AI models.
- On Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic, marking a significant shift in the previously strained relationship between the government and the AI company.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had blocked Anthropic from military contracts over Claude AI usage; a judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company as a supply-chain risk in August.
- Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown appeared at a tech-focused G20 event in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Wednesday, working alongside National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross to repair ties with the administration.
- During an interview on Tuesday, Lutnick told Axios that Anthropic is "back on the right side" with the administration, confirming the company has resolved its prior disputes with the government.
- Brown emphasized that data centers represent enormous economic prosperity, urging G20 officials to grant building permits while noting modern designs can increase power availability for the electrical grid.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has resolved its ongoing conflict with the AI company Anthropic and restored a relationship of trust. A court ruling declaring the Department of Defense's measures unconstitutional served as a turning point, and through Anthropic's proactive change in attitude and communication between the management of both sides, the relationship has entered a phase of full-scale improvement and thawing.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim A-ram = U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick [discussed] Antropics, an artificial intelligence (AI) company that has been in conflict with the Donald Trump administration for months...
Lutnick Says Anthropic Has Patched Relations With US Government
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that Anthropic PBC has patched its relationship with the Trump administration, signaling a possible end to months of sharp differences over security between the US and the artificial intelligence developer.
The US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, said that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is back on the right side of the Trump government, according to an article on the Axis website published on Wednesday (2), suggesting that the tense relationship between the two sides improved. Lutnick made the comment days after an American judge gave Anthropic reason in the company's dispute with the US Armed Forces about the security of AI on…
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