Trump Says He No Longer Views Anthropic as a National Security Threat

US President Donald Trump said he may have viewed artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national security threat a week earlier, but no longer does, according to an interview on "The Axios Show", Reuters reported.

Trump told Axios that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded to the administration's export-control directive "very quickly" and "responsibly." (Image: Claude X)

Senior Anthropic technical staff were scheduled to meet with Trump administration officials earlier in the week to discuss a dispute involving foreign access to the company's most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

Reuters reported that Anthropic had disabled access to those models for all users after Trump ordered the company to block foreign nationals from using them.

When asked whether he considered Anthropic or its chief executive, Dario Amodei, a threat to national security, Trump replied: "Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe."

Trump told Axios that Amodei responded to the administration's export-control directive "very quickly" and "responsibly."

Trump and other Group of Seven leaders met with technology executives, including Amodei, during a summit in France earlier in the week.

Trump also declined to rule out the use of emergency powers under the Defense Production Act against Anthropic.

"I have the power to use a lot of things," Trump said. "But I'm not sure I have to do that."