Lutnick says "We trust Anthropic" as co-founder Tom Brown joins him at G20 event
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-03
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, asked by Axios if he trusts CEO Dario Amodei, replied "We trust Anthropic" and said the company had "done what we asked."
- This marks a thaw after Anthropic's recent feud with the Pentagon.
- Co-founder Tom Brown joined Lutnick at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina, taking a major role at the tech-focused event.
- Takeaway: frontier AI companies now need technical diplomacy at the founder level — Brown sat with government specialists to work through model behavior and safeguards line by line, becoming Anthropic's visible bridge to Washington.
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