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Trump says negotiations with Anthropic are 'going fine'

By Steve Holland and Courtney Rozen Reuters

Updated June 17, 2026 8:55 AM

FILE PHOTO: Anthropic web page is seen in this illustration taken March 1, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Dado Ruvic Reuters

EVIAN-LES-BAINES - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that negotiations with artificial intelligence company Anthropic are "going fine."

Trump made the comment to reporters at the G7 summit after a meeting between leaders and tech bosses including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Anthropic is in a dispute with the Trump administration over foreign access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company on Friday disabled access for all users to those models after Trump ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing them.

The meeting with G7 leaders and tech bosses was the first time that Trump has met with Amodei in public since the order.

The Trump administration has said it has "national security concerns" with Anthropic's most advanced models. A Trump spokesperson declined to provide more detail about the discussions with the company. Anthropic's spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Katharine Jackson and Courtney Rozen in Washington; editing by Michelle Nichols and Chizu Nomiyama)

French President Emmanuel Macron and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attend a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI during the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026.REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Evelyn Hockstein Reuters

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This story was originally published June 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM.

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