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Anthropic Emerges As An Adversary To Trump’s Big Bill


Sources familiar say the White House, angered by Anthropic’s lobbying against its chief piece of legislation, have come to view the AI company as an obstacle.

Anthropic is going toe-to-toe with the Trump Administration on artificial intelligence policy, according to a person familiar with the matter, irking White House officials and bucking the trend of AI companies seeking closer ties with the government. At a recent meeting at the White House, according to one person familiar with the matter, officials lamented Anthropic’s efforts and called out the company’s hiring of several former Biden Administration staffers, including Elizabeth Kelly and Tarun Chhabra. At the Semafor Tech Summit in San Francisco last week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark discussed the company’s relationship with the Trump Administration and its views on the chip deal in the Gulf: “On the one side, you want to build out a US-led AI platform around the world.

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