Anthropic's CEO is having dinner with Donald Trump tonight

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sitting down for dinner with President Donald Trump, bringing high-stakes AI safety fights straight to the White House.

Axios first reported—and TechCrunch confirmed—that Amodei and Trump are holding their first one-on-one meeting tonight. It caps off a busy weekend for Amodei, who was also lampooned on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

Why it matters: The two sit on opposite sides of the AI debate. Amodei released a plan to slow down AI development to proceed with caution. Trump called AI backlash a Democratic hoax and wants to rebrand the tech as "super intelligence."

Know this: The relationship is already rocky. The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk earlier this year after the company tried to put guardrails on its tech—a move Anthropic is currently fighting in court.

Expect awkward small talk, but very real political lobbying over who gets to set the rules for AI.