Dario Amodei spent last week fighting the Trump administration over export controls that forced Anthropic to pull its two most advanced models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, from every market outside the U.S. This week, at a closed-door G7 lunch in Évian-les-Bains, he asked that same administration to lead the world.
Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told a room of heads of state, including President Trump, that the U.S. should head an international coalition to set rules and standards for artificial intelligence, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to discuss the meeting. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney backed the idea, giving the pitch its first head-of-state endorsement.
The timing is what makes it newsworthy. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had, days earlier, sent Amodei a letter stating that Fable 5 and Mythos 5 would require export licenses for any use outside the U.S., effectively shutting Anthropic's most capable products out of the rest of the world. The company that just lost a fight with Washington over how its technology gets used abroad is now asking Washington to decide how everyone's technology gets used abroad. That is not a contradiction so much as a calculation, and it says more about where power actually sits in the AI industry than either company has said on the record.
