Trump tells Axios he doesn’t see Anthropic as U.S. security threat

President Trump said he doesn’t view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration took steps to cut off foreign access to the tech company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models. The government’s order poses a challenge to Anthropic’s business and its branding, which focuses heavily on AI safety. The company said it disabled access to its most advanced models for all its customers to comply with the directive. In a pre-taped interview with Axios posted on Friday, Trump said he thought San Francisco-based Anthropic had “behaved very responsibly” after the Commerce Department ordered the company, led by Chief…