Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles — a breakthrough in his effort to resolve the company's bitter AI fight with the Pentagon.

Why it matters: The Trump administration recognizes the power of Anthropic's new Claude model, Mythos , and its highly sophisticated — and potentially dangerous — ability to breach cybersecurity defenses .

"It would be grossly irresponsible for the U.S. government to deprive itself of the technological leaps that the new model presents," a source close to negotiations told us. "It would be a gift to China."

Reminder: Anthropic is suing the Pentagon for blacklisting the company after Amodei refused to allow his AI to be used without restrictions.

Some parts of the U.S. intelligence community , plus the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, part of Homeland Security), are testing Mythos.…