Pakistan, Sept. 29 -- US President Donald Trump met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday. The meeting marked their first reported one-on-one encounter after months of tensions. Their dispute has centered on AI safety, regulation and military use of artificial intelligence.

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Relations deteriorated after Anthropic refused to allow Claude models for fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The Pentagon later designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. That decision prevented the Defense Department from using the company's AI models.

Anthropic challenged the designation in court, but a federal appeals court rejected the company's challenge on...