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At first glance, it might seem like the two frontier AI labs are in a similar position in President Donald Trump\u2019s Washington. But nothing could be further from the truth. Anthropic has had a far rougher ride in Trump\u2019s D.C. than OpenAI, or pretty much any other tech company.<\/p>\n

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Twice now the administration has taken unprecedented actions that pose a potentially existential risk to the startup, which is valued at $965 billion and which has filed paperwork for an IPO that is expected in the coming months. First, in April, the Pentagon labelled Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d after it refused to accept contract language that the Pentagon was insisting upon. Then, two weeks ago, it got hit with export controls on Mythos as well as Fable, a version of the same model built for wider commercial release\u2014after the discovery of a Fable jailbreak that could allow users to circumvent guardrails designed to prevent users from accessing Mythos\u2019 full cyber capabilities.<\/p>\n

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Trump administration officials have repeatedly engaged in vitriolic attacks against the company, and its CEO Dario Amodei. Trump himself posted on social media that the company consisted of \u201cleftwing nut jobs\u201d who were trying to \u201cstrong-arm the Department of War\u201d (the Pentagon, recently renamed by Trump) when the administration took the decision to label the company a \u201csupply chain risk.\u201d During the same dispute, Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, posted on X that \u201cit\u2019s a shame that Dario Amodei is a liar and has a God-complex.\u201d Michael\u2019s boss, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, called Amodei \u201can ideological lunatic\u201d during an April Congressional hearing. Meanwhile, David Sacks, Trump\u2019s former AI and crypto czar, who continues to hold roles on several government technology advisory committees, has repeatedly accused the company of running a \u201csophisticated regulatory capture\u201d strategy based on fear-mongering about AI\u2019s dangers. He has also said the company has an \u201cagenda to backdoor Woke AI and other AI regulations\u201d by supporting state-level AI laws.<\/p>\n

During the recent export controls dispute, anonymous senior U.S. officials repeatedly sought to portray Amodei as arrogant and aloof, refusing to make himself available when the White House called. (Anthropic has disputed these accounts, saying Amodei was on the phone with the administration within an hour and fifteen minutes of the White House calling.) No other tech company has been subjected to these kinds of attacks from Trump administration officials.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the conflict is a deliberate choice Anthropic has made: unlike nearly every other major tech company, it has refused to flatter or appease the White House. Washington insiders call it politically na\u00efve. Anthropic\u2019s employees and recruits, as well as some of the AI company\u2019s customers, call it a feature. But investors may have other ideas. Continued hostility between the Trump administration and Anthropic could, at the very least, make it harder to sell public market investors on a stock listing. At worst, it could significantly hobble the company\u2019s ability to continue to develop advanced AI models and undo the widespread enterprise adoption Anthropic\u2019s existing AI models have enjoyed. This is the story of a company that has bet its political survival on being technically correct in a town that runs on loyalty.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a standard Trump playbook. Anthropic isn\u2019t following it. <\/h2>\n

When Trump was elected to a second term in 2024, a number of prominent tech CEOs had reason to be worried. Chief among them was Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg had made the call to suspend Trump from Meta\u2019s social media platforms after the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack. In response, Trump had branded Facebook \u201can enemy of the people\u201d and called Zuckerberg a \u201ccriminal,\u201d even threatening him with life imprisonment if he thought the CEO was trying to swing the 2024 election against him. What\u2019s more, Zuckerberg had everything to gain if he could get Trump on side. Meta was facing a landmark federal antitrust prosecution that Trump, if he could be convinced, might pressure the Justice Department to drop or settle.<\/p>\n

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So Zuckerberg went out of his way to cozy up to Trump. He appointed a Trump loyalist Dana White to Meta\u2019s board, ended content moderation in favor of a \u201ccommunity notes\u201d system, and promoted Republican Joel Kaplan to head its global affairs team. Zuckerberg personally donated $1 million to Trump\u2019s inauguration fund and Meta was among the companies donating to the construction of Trump\u2019s $300 million White House East Wing ballroom. Meta also brought in Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump deputy national security advisor with deep ties to the Trump family, to help lead the company\u2019s AI strategy.<\/p>\n

A similar playbook of flattery, donations, and the appointment of executives perceived as Trump allies to key government affairs posts has been followed by other tech CEOs who thought they might otherwise be in Trump\u2019s crosshairs, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to a recent book by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman, Trump ridiculed some of these tech CEOs for their obsequiousness in private but seemed to revel in it nonetheless\u2014and there\u2019s no denying that these tactics seem to have largely kept these technology giants from becoming government targets. (Although Zuckerberg failed in his efforts to get Trump to drop the antitrust suit against Meta, which is currently underway.)<\/p>\n

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Anthropic\u2019s arch-rival OpenAI has also played this game. Its policy chief Chris Lehane grew up in Democratic political campaigns, but in the years before joining OpenAI became best known as a highly-effective hired gun for the crypto and tech industry in its fight against regulation. That earned him the admiration of many in Trump\u2019s circle, who are also investors in crypto currency ventures or come from Silicon Valley\u2019s libertarian circles, where regulation is seen as an impediment to innovation. Meanwhile, Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s cofounder and president, has emerged as the single largest donor to Trump Super PAC MAGA Inc.<\/p>\n

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Starting in a hole and continuing to dig<\/h2>\n

Anthropic, by contrast, started in a hole and kept digging. Amodei, Anthropic\u2019s cofounder and CEO, had reportedly called Trump \u201ca feudal warlord\u201d in a now-deleted Facebook post urging friends to vote for Kamala Harris. His sister and fellow cofounder Daniela Amodei donated to Harris\u2019s campaign and had, early in her career, worked for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

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As if that weren\u2019t enough, many of the Silicon Valley personas who ended up with key advisory roles in the Trump administration were on-record being critical of AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, that had warned of AI\u2019s potentially existential risks and were advocating for AI regulation in the years before they assumed official positions. In 2023, on his popular podcast, \u201cAll In,\u201d Sacks, who would later become Trump\u2019s AI and crypto czar, criticized the administration of then President Joe Biden for its AI policy, warning repeatedly that leading AI labs would push for regulations only they could comply with\u2014the same \u201cregulatory capture\u201d charge he\u2019d later level at Anthropic specifically. JD Vance, then still a Senator, told a Congressional hearing in July 2024 that he was worried about \u201csome preemptive overregulation attempts that would frankly entrench the tech incumbents that we already have.\u201d As Vice President, Vance has played a key role in tech policy deliberations.<\/p>\n

Sacks and Sriram Krishnan, who would become a White House AI policy advisor, were also close associates of Elon Musk, having worked for him at Twitter\/X. Musk, a key Trump tech advisor, had long accused Anthropic\u2019s Claude of being \u201cwoke AI\u201d\u2014a line Sacks adopted, accusing the company of being run by \u201ccommitted leftists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than hire executives that might have tempered the Trump team\u2019s predisposition to regard the company with animosity, Anthropic made a series of moves that antagonized them. It hired several outgoing Biden administration AI policy officials. These included Ben Buchanan, who helped architect Biden\u2019s \u201cdiffusion rule,\u201d a system of export controls on critical AI technology that Trump criticized and then dismantled when he took office; Elizabeth Kelly, who had headed the U.S. AI Safety Institute under Biden; and Tarun Chhabra, a coordinator for technology and national security on Biden\u2019s National Security Council. In March 2025, after law firms Skadden and Latham & Watkins reached legal settlements with Trump, Anthropic pulled its legal work from the two firms. Amodei reportedly told staff he wouldn\u2019t work with law firms that were caving in to what he saw as Trump\u2019s assault on the rule of law.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that Anthropic has refused to work with the White House altogether. The company notes that Amodei attended an energy event with Trump in Pennsylvania in the summer of 2025, where the President laid out his vision of U.S. energy and AI supremacy. Amodei also joined Trump on a trip to Japan in the fall of 2025. The company also voiced support for the White House\u2019s AI Action Plan and participated in the White House\u2019s AI Education Taskforce event as well as signing the White House\u2019s Pledge to America\u2019s Youth. In an October 2025 interview, Amodei told Fortune that the company has \u201clots of friends in the Trump administration\u201d and that the company was more aligned with Trump than some of his advisors, such as Sacks, gave them credit for. In an earlier October blog post widely interpreted as a response to a series of highly-critical social media posts about the company from Sacks, who was angry the company was advocating for state-level AI regulation, Amodei went out of his way to say Anthropic concurred with Vance\u2019s recent remarks that AI will have both benefits and harms, and that U.S. policy should try to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms.<\/p>\n

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But it was notable that Amodei was not invited to a White House dinner in September attended by leaders from other major U.S. tech companies and AI labs, nor was he among the tech CEOs Trump invited along on his state visit to the U.K. that same month.<\/p>\n

And Amodei made clear he would not kowtow to the President. \u201cWhen we disagree [with the White House], we\u2019re going to say so,\u201d Amodei told Fortune back in October. \u201cIf we agreed with everything that some government official wanted us to, I\u2019m sure that could benefit us in business in some way. But that\u2019s not what the company is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s refusal to agree to a Pentagon contract that did not include explicit prohibitions on the U.S. military using their AI models for autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance won praise from many AI researchers, including those working for rival labs such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind. It also proved popular with consumers, especially when OpenAI did agree to a Pentagon contract that included language giving the U.S. military the right to use its AI models for \u201cany lawful purpose.\u201d Despite OpenAI including language in the contract highlighting that current U.S. policies or laws did not allow fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance, OpenAI faced a backlash, with many dropping OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and downloading Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n

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In an angry message that he posted to employees on Anthropic\u2019s internal Slack in March, when the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk, and which then leaked to the press, Amodei said: \u201cThe real reasons [the Department of Defense] and the Trump admin do not like us is that we haven\u2019t donated to Trump (while [OpenAI and its president Brockman] have donated a lot), we haven\u2019t given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has), we have supported AI regulation which is against their agenda, we\u2019ve told the truth about a number of AI policy issues (like job displacement), and we\u2019ve actually held our red lines with integrity rather than colluding with them to produce \u2018safety theater\u2019 for the benefit of employees (which, I absolutely swear to you, is what literally everyone at DoW, Palantir, our political consultants, etc, assumed was the problem we were trying to solve).\u201d Amodei later apologized for the message\u2019s tone.<\/p>\n

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Optics and personalities matter<\/h2>\n

Amodei\u2019s diagnosis of the problem is likely correct. Yet the company seems to continually miscalculate the extent to which this dynamic will jeopardize its business. In the latest dispute over the danger posed by the jailbreak to its Fable model, Anthropic tried to minimize the risk the jailbreak posed, saying it only unlocked some of the underlying Mythos model\u2019s powerful cyber capabilities and was not a \u201cuniversal\u201d bypass of Fable\u2019s guardrails. Technically, the company was likely correct. More than 100 independent cybersecurity experts signed an open letter calling for the export controls on Fable and Mythos to be lifted, arguing that the jailbreak did not expose capabilities that were not already available from other AI models and that, furthermore, the ability to scan code for vulnerabilities was vital to cyber defenders.<\/p>\n

That may be why Amodei felt justified in turning down the administration\u2019s request to voluntarily pull Fable off the market, according to a story in Politico. But even if that was the right decision on a technical basis, it was a poor political one. According to the publication, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Amodei as much, saying to the CEO he was making \u201ca bad decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The administration certainly seemed to relish the opportunity to punish Anthropic for its own previous statements that Mythos posed a serious threat. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell everyone that your product might destroy the world and then not expect the government to be involved,\u201d an administration official told Politico. \u201cThey\u2019re politically naive.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was also probably unwise for Anthropic to choose an outside cybersecurity expert to vet the Fable jailbreak research\u2014Luta Security founder and CEO Katie Moussouris\u2014who was politically suspect in the eyes of Trump\u2019s circle. Former White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted on X to point out that Moussouris listed her pronouns on her X profile and was wearing a hat supporting Democrats in her profile photo. \u201cThese people really just don\u2019t get it\u2026,\u201d he said about Anthropic\u2019s choice of cyber expert. It didn\u2019t help that cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs had been on X vouching for Moussouris\u2019 abilities. Trump had fired Krebs in November 2020 after Krebs, who was then a top U.S. cybersecurity official, contradicted Trump\u2019s claims about rampant election fraud and tampering with electronic voting machines in that month\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic has tried to adjust its lobbying efforts to be more Trump-friendly. Following its contract fight with the Pentagon, it belatedly engaged Ballard Partners, a Republican-leaning lobbying shop with a reputation for helping clients navigate Trump world. The company has also bulked up its own in-house policy team in D.C., including hiring a number of Republicans and former Trump officials. These include Chris Liddell, a former deputy chief of staff in Trump\u2019s first White House, and Mary Croghan, who served in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, in Trump\u2019s first term. Anthony Cimino, who is now Anthropic\u2019s head of federal affairs, served on the Republican staff of the House Financial Services Committee. The company has also added Republicans, including former Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, to its national security advisory board.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s policy strategy is \u2018on brand\u2019 but off-kilter for Trump\u2019s D.C.<\/h2>\n

But those efforts may be too little too late. And some Washington insiders say that given the way Anthropic has tried to position itself, not just politically but commercially, as an organization dedicated to AI safety, there may be a limit to its ability to bend in ways that will satisfy Trump\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they probably underestimated the necessity of building relationships and of the influence of money [in Washington],\u201d Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance for Secure AI, a Washington lobbying group that has been supporting AI regulation from the right, told Fortune. But he said that the real problem is essentially what Amodei diagnosed in his angry Slack message\u2014other tech companies have been willing to do whatever the administration wants; Anthropic hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropic, as a company, has a very clear brand and culture,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they\u2019re just kind of acting in a way that is on brand for them, and Dario is acting in a way that is on brand for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Steinhauser said that if the company were to shift its stance, it might alienate its employee base, which is a key constituency in a world where AI research and engineering talent is scarce and in high demand. It also, he said, might alienate some of the consumers that have flocked to Claude because Anthropic didn\u2019t bow to the Pentagon\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it putting them in some hot water with the administration? Yes. But I think it\u2019s like a price that they\u2019re potentially willing to pay to do what they think is the right thing to do,\u201d Steinhauser said.<\/p>\n

Stumbling toward a reset with the White House<\/h2>\n

Given these constraints, and given its lack of an in-house Trump whisperer, Anthropic has been hoping to depersonalize the conflict between Amodei and Trump\u2019s team. After his initial involvement in phone calls with Trump officials two weeks ago, Amodei has let other Anthropic executives take the lead in negotiations with the White House. Anthropic first dispatched a team of technical executives, including one of its top cybersecurity researchers, Nicholas Carlini, Logan Graham, who evaluates AI models for risks, and Dave Orr, the company\u2019s head of safeguards, to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. cybersecurity officials in the hopes of quickly convincing them to relax the export controls. The team has, according to a story in Politico, been working on a shared framework with the government for gauging exactly how much risk particular jailbreaks of model guardrails pose.<\/p>\n

But, perhaps in belated recognition that the White House\u2019s objections to Anthropic\u2019s models are as much about politics as technical risks, Anthropic has also designated Tom Brown, an Anthropic cofounder who has been heading up the company\u2019s efforts to secure enough computing capacity for its business, and Sarah Heck, the company\u2019s new head of policy, who served on the National Security Council during Trump\u2019s first administration and was a career diplomat before that, to lead negotiations with the White House.<\/p>\n

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Those negotiations have started paying dividends, as the U.S. government\u2019s decision to relax export controls on its Mythos model indicates, although the company still has not succeeded in getting the export controls on its Fable model, which it was no doubt counting on to generate a good chunk of revenue, lifted.<\/p>\n

Anthropic is realizing, belatedly, that being right is not the same as winning\u2014not in Trump\u2019s Washington.<\/p>\n

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