Is the most powerful model about to be unsealed? Trump says after G7 talks, he no longer considers Anthropic a threat

According to Beating Monitoring, U.S. President Donald Trump said in an Axios interview that he no longer considers the artificial intelligence company Anthropic a national security threat. Just a week earlier, he had described Anthropic as a potential threat. The turning point in his stance came from a meeting during the G7 summit luncheon, when Trump held a one-on-one conversation with Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, who had been seated away from the main table.

Previously, the two sides had clashed within a week over the severity of the “jailbreak” security vulnerabilities in the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. After negotiations broke down, on June 12, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued an export control order, blocking the export of the Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models and requiring that foreign technical personnel access be approved. This left Amodei facing an awkward situation at the G7 luncheon, with his seat at the other end of the long table.

After the crisis erupted, negotiations shifted toward jointly developing technical standards. The White House, the Department of Commerce, the National Cyber Director, and senior executives at Anthropic held multiple rounds of communication, and sent security experts to Washington to build a technical benchmark framework for assessing the severity of large-model vulnerabilities and the boundaries of government intervention. Trump said that Amodei responded quickly to the requirements for remediation.

The change in attitude directly cleared policy obstacles for Anthropic to advance its IPO and expansion. As of June 2026, Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue had reached $47 billion, its valuation stood at $965 billion, and it had already submitted an IPO application. If it continued to be positioned as a security threat, Anthropic’s IPO would face substantial policy uncertainty.

On the regulatory front, Trump reiterated that he does not want to restrict the domestic AI industry by shutting down or taking over companies. The top priority is maintaining a competitive edge over China. However, compulsory regulatory options using emergency executive powers were not ruled out. Trump said it is currently uncertain whether the Defense Production Act needs to be invoked, but he would exercise authority if necessary.