A president says he briefly branded a lab a national security threat

Claim

The President said he briefly branded Anthropic a national security threat after Amazon, a competitor and part-owner, flagged a vulnerability, before warming to Dario Amodei, declining to rule out the Defense Production Act, and insisting America still leads China by a wide margin.

Reporting date: 2026-06-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to June 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)