Trump Signals Thaw With Anthropic After Private Dinner, Despite Pentagon's Supply-Chain Risk Label

President Donald Trump said he 'liked' Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after a recent one-on-one dinner, signaling a potential diplomatic shift in a relationship strained by the Defense Department's designation of the AI company as a supply-chain risk. Trump told Time Magazine in an interview published Thursday: "I liked him and his wife a lot. Very smart guy. Maybe different than I thought, a little bit."