President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that discussions with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic were "going fine," speaking to reporters at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains after a meeting that brought together government leaders and senior technology executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
The remark followed a dispute between Anthropic and the U.S. administration centered on access by foreign nationals to the company’s most advanced AI models, named Fable 5 and Mythos 5. In response to an order from the president requiring the company to block foreign nationals from accessing those models, Anthropic on Friday disabled user access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 entirely.
The G7 leaders-and-tech-bosses meeting marked the first public encounter between Trump and Amodei since the administration’s order. Beyond the president’s brief on-the-record comment that negotiations were proceeding well, officials provided little additional information. A spokesperson for the White House declined to elaborate on the substance of the talks.
The administration has publicly cited "national security concerns" regarding Anthropic’s most capable models, a position that has driven the recent public actions and the ensuing dispute. Anthropic’s communications team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the summit discussion or the company’s decision to suspend access to the named models.
The available details leave several points unresolved in public fora. The president’s one-line characterization of the talks and the administration’s general reference to national security were not accompanied by specifics in the immediate aftermath of the meeting. Anthropic’s silence, reflected in the lack of an immediate response from its spokesperson, means there is little additional clarity about the company’s perspective on the negotiations available at this time.
For observers tracking implications for technology firms and related markets, the episode underscores a period of active government scrutiny of advanced AI capabilities and of public friction between a major U.S. tech developer and the White House. The direct operational outcome to date is the suspension of access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, a change that followed the administration’s instruction to block foreign nationals from those models.
Until either side provides further public detail, the contours of the talks and any near-term resolutions remain limited to the facts already disclosed: the president’s summary that negotiations are "going fine," the prior presidential order, Anthropic’s disabling of access to its two named models, the administration’s stated national security concerns, and the absence of additional comment from both sides.