Anthropic and Trump: Is a truce near?

The Trump administration is publicly dialing back the heat in its standoff with the artificial intelligence developer Anthropic over ethical limits on the use of its AI — as worries about the company’s powerful new hacking tool undermine the president’s attempt to sever the startup’s ties to the government.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s high-stakes meeting Friday afternoon with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross was a contrast to the months of sniping and litigation between the two sides....