Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce

It will probably take more than a few days to reach a resolution that eases export restrictions on the company’s newest AI model, one White House official said.

Anthropic's new Fable artificial intelligence model is designed to be less powerful than the company’s highly advanced Mythos — but it has still inspired worries inside the Trump administration about potential security vulnerabilities. | AFP via Getty Images

Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its latest model from the market Friday night, two administration officials, a person familiar with the discussions and a person close to the company told POLITICO.

It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases the federal government’s Friday action, which had barred Anthropic from allowing non-U.S. users to access its newest model because of potential security vulnerabilities, a senior White House official said. But the official left the door open to the possibility that it can be done quickly.

“That’s up to Anthropic,” the official said.