Regulation2026-08-04

The White House met representatives of leading US artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday to discuss a new set of industry rules the Trump administration describes as voluntary. The meeting came weeks after the government ordered a lockdown on some users' access to Anthropic's most advanced models. No public commitments emerged, and the administration has not said whether it would use that power again.

What changed

In June the US government ordered a lockdown on the use of Anthropic's most advanced models for some users.

  • two Anthropic models taken offline in June

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