Trump Tells Axios He Doesn’t See Anthropic as US Security Threat

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration took steps to cut off foreign access to the tech company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models.

In a pretaped interview with Axios posted on Friday, Trump said he thought Anthropic had “behaved very responsibly” after the Commerce Department ordered the company, led by Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei, to seek US approval before allowing a foreign national to use its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

“He responded to us very quickly, because you know it’s tremendous liability,” Trump said, adding that ...