Anthropic’s White House Meeting 4/17/26
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Anthropic CEO Dario Amade is heading to the White House today for a meeting about mythos. |
| 0:05.0 | Mackenzie Seagalos has more in today's tech check. Mac. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, Mike, so I'm here at the White House where CNBC has just confirmed that Anthropic CEO Dario Amade |
| 0:15.0 | could be walking through these doors here at the Southwest Gate at any moment. |
| 0:19.0 | He's set to meet with Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. |
| 0:22.1 | It's a sign that the administration may be trying to reset one of the most contentious fights it has had yet with the AI industry. |
| 0:28.8 | Now, Anthropic is a no comment on this, but the White House did tell us last night that any new technology potentially used by the federal government has to go through a technical review |
| 0:37.8 | for security and reliability, certainly a sign that officials are already laying the groundwork |
| 0:43.0 | for possible broader access here. Now today's talks, they are specifically on mythos. |
| 0:48.9 | That's Anthropics' powerful new cyber model, which parts of the U.S. intelligence community |
| 0:53.5 | are reportedly already testing, |
| 0:55.8 | with Treasury and other agencies also said to want to use it. Axios reporting that some inside |
| 1:01.6 | the administration now see it as counterproductive to keep this technology at arm's length. |
| 1:06.4 | One person telling them that this would literally be a gift to China if they don't use it. |
| 1:11.5 | Now, that is a major shift from where we were just two months ago in terms of talks with the |
| 1:16.1 | Anthropic, with the Anthropic C-suite and the government. |
| 1:20.6 | When essentially the Pentagon moved to blacklist, Anthropic is a so-called supply chain risk. |
| 1:26.5 | That is a fight that is still being played out in courts in D.C. and San Francisco. |
| 1:31.1 | These talks very much separate from that all about whether or not the government can deploy |
| 1:35.7 | mythos across some of its agencies. |
| 1:38.8 | So, guys, that's what we're looking at right now. |
| 1:41.0 | And in order to do that, I guess it would have to remove the supply chain risk designation, |
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