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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the Trump administration once again trusts Anthropic and its chief executive, Dario Amodei, signaling a striking turnaround in a bitter dispute over artificial intelligence safeguards and military use.

The apparent reconciliation follows months of legal conflict, commercial uncertainty and public tension between Washington and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence developers.

“They've done what we asked. They're back on the right side. So the answer is: Yes,” Lutnick told Axios when asked whether he trusts Anthropic.

His response suggests that the company has made enough progress to regain support from at least one influential member of the administration.

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The change is particularly notable because the Pentagon previously classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

That designation threatened to prevent federal agencies and defense contractors from conducting business with the company, potentially cutting Anthropic off from a significant and lucrative market.

Lutnick’s comments arrived shortly after a federal judge in California ruled that the Pentagon’s action against Anthropic violated the law.

The court found that the government’s decision “constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment,” according to CNN.

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Yet the conflict is not completely settled. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael wrote on X that the Defense Department and the broader defense industry still consider Anthropic a supply chain risk.

That contradiction leaves Anthropic in an unusual position, with the Commerce Department projecting renewed confidence while the Pentagon maintains its warning.

The split also raises practical questions about whether defense contractors can safely resume or expand their commercial relationships with the artificial intelligence company.

Moneywise contacted the White House and Anthropic for comment but did not receive a response before publication.

Neither side has publicly detailed what Anthropic specifically did to satisfy Lutnick or which administration demands have now been addressed.

The original dispute centered on two applications that Anthropic refused to permit for Claude, its flagship artificial intelligence system.

The company opposed the use of Claude for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, placing firm boundaries around some of the most sensitive potential military applications.

Pentagon officials argued that those safeguards could reduce Claude’s usefulness during urgent national security operations.

Officials were reportedly concerned that Anthropic’s restrictions might obstruct military use of the system during a crisis such as an incoming missile attack.

Anthropic, however, maintained that advanced artificial intelligence should not be deployed without meaningful limits.

The disagreement became a test of whether a private technology company can dictate restrictions after selling sophisticated tools to a government responsible for national defense.

After the Pentagon issued its risk designation, Anthropic took the fight to federal court.

Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao warned in legal filings that the damage could spread far beyond direct government contracts and place hundreds of millions, or possibly billions, of dollars in business at risk.

The stakes extend well beyond one company’s revenue because federal classifications can influence private contractors, investors and potential customers.

A government risk label can become a powerful commercial penalty even before the underlying dispute receives a full hearing.

Amodei has repeatedly warned that increasingly capable artificial intelligence could be abused by governments.

Among his stated concerns is the possibility that authorities could use such systems to monitor entire populations, identify political dissent and suppress opposition with unprecedented efficiency.

At the same time, Anthropic appears increasingly willing to emphasize areas where it agrees with the Trump administration.

Company cofounder Tom Brown has recently assumed a more visible role in Anthropic’s outreach to administration officials and the wider public.

Speaking at the G20 Innovation Ministerial, Brown praised a Truth Social post from President Trump concerning data centers and their economic potential.

“I really love Trump's post from earlier this week ... where he was pointing out that the data centers are just an enormous source of prosperity,” Brown said.

“They produce a ton of jobs. They produce taxes. Now the way that we design them, we actually bring on more power to the grid.”

His remarks highlighted a shared interest in expanding the physical infrastructure required to support artificial intelligence development across the United States.

Large data centers require enormous investments in land, electricity, advanced chips and network capacity.

Therefore, the artificial intelligence boom is becoming as much an energy and industrial policy story as a software story, with major consequences for utilities, construction firms, chipmakers and capital markets.

Anthropic and the administration have not resolved every disagreement, however, and the company is continuing a separate legal challenge involving another Pentagon designation in the District of Columbia Circuit.

Lutnick’s restored trust marks meaningful progress, but the unresolved Defense Department position means the truce remains incomplete and potentially fragile.

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