TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic’s CEO Scheduled for White House Meeting Amid Feud
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:39.6 | for a West Wing meeting today. People familiar with the matter say Dario Amade plans to sit down |
| 0:45.0 | with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in one of the AI company's highest profile efforts |
| 0:49.8 | to end its bitter feud with the Trump administration over guardrails surrounding the Pentagon's use of its clawed models. |
| 0:56.0 | The meeting comes as the White House races to prepare for Anthropics' latest AI model, mythos, |
| 1:01.2 | which the company says could pose cybersecurity risks that cause widespread online disruption. |
| 1:07.3 | Swedish telecommunications equipment company Erickson says it expects to see network's growth |
| 1:12.0 | despite reporting a first quarter sales drop in North America. |
| 1:15.8 | The company says that sales drop was offset by growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, |
| 1:20.9 | thanks to network modernization and 5G launches. |
| 1:24.1 | But Erickson's CEO says the company is facing increased costs for electronics components, |
| 1:28.9 | including semiconductors, caused in part by AI demands. Meanwhile, investors are once again |
| 1:34.1 | piling into tech stocks. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ climbed to fresh record highs yesterday, thanks |
| 1:39.8 | in part to investors moving past previous anxieties over the potential economic implications of |
| 1:44.8 | AI advances. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which includes Nvidia, advanced microdevices, |
| 1:51.4 | and Broadcom, climbed for its 12th straight session, gaining about 1%. And hardware giants like |
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