NEW: Inside the 24-hrs before WH slapped export controls on Anthropic - Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about Fable jailbreak to Trump admin - Friday AM, Sean Cairncross, Bessent, Susie etc. held WH call to discuss - Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat. - When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett. -Amodei tried to clear up what he assumed was a misunderstanding. He defended the guardrails and distinguished between universal and non-universal jailbreak - Cairncross and Bessent were unmoved and asked Amodei to take down Fable and work with the admin to fix the vulnerabilities. (A WH official said Amazon’s findings were run past the NSA and they felt they had “proof.”) - Amodei asked for more time and info, but he made no commitments to pull the model - Bessent told Amodei directly at one point that he was making a “bad decision” - By Friday evening, the Trump admin imposed its export controls. - “Export controls were a last resort after begging them for hours to work with us,” senior WH official said. W/ @cheyennehaslett politico.com/news/2026/06/13…

Alright, now it’s official: super excited to be joining the Politico NJ team later this month!

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NEW: “Knives are out” at the White House The ascension of Bill Pulte is a clear sign of the recent mood inside Trump’s White House: angry, insular, grievance-driven and increasingly shaped by a group of loyalists with direct access to the president. Interviews with Trump allies, GOP Senate aides and people close to the White House reveal a president “increasingly frustrated with everyone, from his own team to the Senate,” a MAGA world operative close to the White House told me. Much more in today’s @playbookdc. politico.com/playbook

Very glad this worked out for him

“Whether it’s peak inflation or not, it doesn’t matter,” said one former Trump administration official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the president’s political predicament. “The die has been cast in terms of how people are looking at the economy.” politico.com/news/2026/06/10…

RT @politico: Scandals didn't stop Platner from winning his Dem primary in Maine — but he faces a tough race against Collins. The GOP sena…

Scoop in @playbookdc: Ron Klain is advising @RoKhanna as Khanna prepares for a possible 2028 presidential bid, three people familiar told me. politico.com/newsletters/pla…

From @SamJSutton @Politico: "The push to ban large institutions from purchasing single-family homes should be thought of as an amuse-bouche for future fights over private capital’s role in politically sensitive industries." Tasty... politico.com/newsletters/mor…

It was a blowout jobs number. The labor market looks like it's humming. And as was the case for President Biden, it hasn't yielded any political upside for the incumbent. politico.com/news/2026/06/05…

NEW: We got our hands on the discussion draft of Obernolte and Trahan's forthcoming AI bill. Read the text below 👇 politico.com/news/2026/06/04… w/ @__gabbymiller @BrendanBordelon @meredithllee

As backlash to the construction of large-scale data centers continues to grow, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority tells @glorioso4ny it is suspending further efforts to award the remaining $250 million in state tax credits available under Next New Jersey Program – AI in an effort to "ensure data centers operate responsibly and within strong, transparent guardrails."

Catching up to what @alexanderburns wrote about @JDVance and @spencerpratt. tinyurl.com/3rbrf633

EXCLUSIVE: Trump signed an AI executive order with less-advanced government scrutiny than the White House initially had been set to impose. politico.com/news/2026/06/02…

every DC-based political operative bio is like: “Strategist. Storyteller. Girldad. Fighter of good fights. Lives on a diet of coffee and red wine, but usually not in the same cup 🤫. Always down to yap about redistricting. Hook ‘em 🤘”