President Donald Trump will have dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday, marking their first sit-down meeting as Washington debates how to regulate frontier artificial intelligence and maintain US leadership over China. The meeting, first reported by Axios, follows a difficult year that included Trump’s criticism of Amodei’s calls for regulation and a coordinated slowdown among frontier AI companies. A White House official said Trump wants the United States to lead in "Super Intelligence" while protecting consumers. Amodei was absent from a White House summit of technology executives last week during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit, although he and Trump attended an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania last year. Anthropic also remains embroiled in a Pentagon dispute: a 2-1 appeals court ruling upheld the company’s designation as a supply chain risk after it rejected military uses involving lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Anthropic is preparing for a stock market listing in November, with valuations near $2 trillion under discussion. Trump has announced an AI force to monitor the industry and said he would appoint an AI Czar, but neither initiative has been detailed or completed.