White House Drafts Guidance to Allow Anthropic Use, Waive Supply Chain Risk Determinations

Gate News message, April 29 — The White House is drafting executive guidance that would allow government agencies to waive supply chain risk determinations for Anthropic and introduce new AI models including Mythos, according to sources familiar with the matter. The proposed administrative measure could provide a pathway to ease tensions between the White House and Anthropic, with one source describing the effort as a way to "save face while bringing them back."

Earlier this month, White House Chief of Staff Wiles and Treasury Secretary Bessent met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for what both sides described as a productive preliminary discussion on how the company and government could collaborate. This week, the White House has been convening industry companies to solicit input on potential administrative actions and best practices for deploying Mythos. These meetings include preliminary reviews of guidance documents that could rescind a prior directive from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) prohibiting government use of Anthropic.

The guidance represents a significant shift from earlier restrictions and signals ongoing negotiations between the administration and the AI company over government adoption of its technology.