LATEST play-by-play on the White House-Anthropic export controls saga:
- It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases export controls, a senior WH official tells me but they left the door open to the possibility that it can be done quickly. “That’s up to Anthropic.”
- Since Friday, Trump has asked Howard Lutnick to be more involved with Anthropic
- On Saturday, Lutnick, Sean Cairncross, Anthropic’s Tom Brown Sarah Heck had multiple high level hour long calls
- Over the weekend, Anthropic assembled a technical team including Logan Graham from “Frontier Red Team,” Dave Orr who is head of safeguards, and lead security researcher Nicholas Carlini to engage the admin
- Today (Monday), the Anthropic trio gave in-person presentation to administration officials from ONCD and Commerce’s CAISI. Chris Fall, head of CAISI, was one of the participants.
- Bessent has been less involved over the weekend and Treasury did not participate in the in-person meetings Monday
- Lutnick and Bessent both flew to G7 on Air Force One with Trump
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