Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to meet with White House about Mythos

Anthropic appears to be inching back into the White House‘s good graces, weeks after President Donald Trump blacklisted the company and called it a national security risk, declaring that his administration would “not do business with them again.”

Mythos excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software, according to Anthropic, and the company said it has been engaging in “ongoing discussions” with U.S. government officials about its capabilities.

Anthropic is rolling the model out to a select group of companies as part of Project Glasswing, a new cybersecurity initiative, and does not have plans to release it publicly.

Anthropic declined to comment. Axios was first to report the meeting.

Just weeks prior, Anthropic and the Trump administration were firmly on the outs. Anthropic sued the government to try to reverse its blacklisting in courts in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and those cases are ongoing.

The DOD wanted Anthropic to grant the Pentagon unfettered access to its models for all lawful purposes, while Anthropic wanted assurance that its technology would not be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance. 

The talks stalled, and the DOD declared Anthropic a supply chain risk in early March, meaning that use of the company’s technology purportedly threatens U.S. national security.

The label requires defense contractors to certify that they don’t use Anthropic’s Claude AI models in their work with the military.

Trump then ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology” in a Truth Social post, but that directive has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in San Francisco.

The DOD has not commented on Mythos, but the agency has continued to use Anthropic’s Claude models in the war in Iran. At the very least, the power of Mythos seems to be changing the broader tone from the Trump administration.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell met with the heads of the top U.S. banks last week about the AI model. The week before, Vice President JD Vance and Bessent also met with Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other top tech execs about AI cybersecurity.

Amoedi’s meeting with Wiles is the latest signal that tensions could be easing.

Wiles is a former employee at Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to the Trump administration. Anthropic hired the firm after the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk, according to federal disclosures.

–CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos contributed to this report