Trump Says He No Longer Views Anthropic as National Security Threat

The president said one of the company’s competitors ’turned Anthropic in' and raised alarms over the new models.

Illustration of Anthropic on June 18, 2026. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas via AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump said he no longer views the artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic as a national security threat.

“We have a situation with Anthropic, and we didn’t like what they were doing, and so far I think they behaved very responsibly to our request,” Trump told Axios’s Marc Caputo in an interview that aired on June 19.