Anthropic Finally Repairs Trump Administration Ties as IPO Spotlight Grows

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic. His words end months of conflict with the maker of Claude. The artificial intelligence (AI) firm could go public soon.

Lutnick spoke to Axios on Tuesday. A day later, he shared a stage with Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown. The venue was a G20 technology meeting in North Carolina.

What Ended the Anthropic Feud With Washington

Asked in an interview whether he trusts Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Lutnick did not hedge.

"They've done what we asked. They're back on the right side. So the answer is: Yes."

The fight was real, seeing as in June, Commerce demanded licenses for foreign users of Anthropic's strongest models. The company pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone instead.

Regulators lifted the export restrictions on June 30. Access returned the next day. Weeks earlier, Trump had called Anthropic a threat to national security.

The courts moved too, and on August 28, US District Judge Rita Lin voided the Pentagon's supply-chain risk label, calling the measures illegal and baseless. A second Pentagon designation is still live in the D.C. Circuit.

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