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Anthropic Wins Back Trump Administration’s Trust

Lutnick says Anthropic is back in the Trump Administration’s favor. Image: The White House

Anthropic is rebuilding ties with the Trump administration after its Pentagon fight, potentially reopening the door to federal AI contracts.

Sep 3, 2026

Anthropic has gone from Washington’s AI outcast to a company the Trump administration says it can trust.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the administration now trusts Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei, marking a sharp shift after months of public clashes over the company’s AI safety limits.

“We trust Anthropic,” Lutnick told Axios’ Mike Allen in an interview Tuesday. “They’ve done what we asked. They’re back on the right side. So the answer is: Yes.”

The comments come after a bitter dispute over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its Claude AI modelsto be used for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk after...

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