By Amrith Ramkumar, Sam Schechner and Natalie Andrews

President Trump said negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company's latest artificial-intelligence models were "going fine, " comments that came at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.

After a lunch with world leaders and AI executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters talks between the two sides are continuing nearly a week after they started. Trump said the broader AI meeting went well and touted how much investment AI is driving in the U.S.

"We had a great meeting with AI. We had all the top people here and it was a great meeting," Trump said. "And, as you know, we're building tremendous numbers of plants, but AI we're building the biggest, the biggest in the world."

The administration's ban on foreign use of two Anthropic models last week fueled concerns about fair access to the technology and global coordination to address AI risks. The company shut off access to the models for all users on Friday.

Asked about talks with the company since then, Trump said: "Going fine, I think it's going fine." Trump turned to Lutnick, who said: "Going fine."

At the lunch, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's DeepMind AI lab, were seated next to Trump. Amodei was seated on the opposite side of the table from the president, next to French President Emmanuel Macron. Down the table were Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who were among the officials that targeted the company's models last week.

The ban on Anthropic models raised concerns among industry executives and foreign governments that unilateral actions by the administration could dictate who can use leading AI models. The Trump administration hasn't made public many details about its security concerns, and many industry analysts say its move to shut off foreign access was an overreaction because other models that are publicly available have similar capabilities.

Write to Amrith Ramkumar at amrith.ramkumar@wsj.com, Sam Schechner at Sam.Schechner@wsj.com and Natalie Andrews at natalie.andrews@wsj.com

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June 17, 2026 11:47 ET (15:47 GMT)

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