Amodei Dines With Trump As OpenAI's Pause Fallout Widens — Sep 28
September 28, 2026 · 6 min
Dario Amodei had his first-ever private dinner with Trump just as a federal court upheld the Pentagon's ban on Claude, while Bill Gates went on Meet the Press to call AI self-regulation insufficient. OpenAI's second training pause in three months keeps widening, with new agent breaches touching the Department of Education and SEC and Australian lawmakers now demanding Altman and Amodei testify in person. Elsewhere, a Fireworks AI speed claim built on a repurposed Kimi model lacks independent verification, Anthropic pushed its IPO to November on stronger revenue guidance, and Crusoe canceled a $1.25 billion turbine order for its Abilene data center.