June 19 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he might have viewed artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national ‌security threat last week, but he no longer does, according ‌to an interview with “The Axios Show” published on Friday.

Senior Anthropic technical staff were scheduled ​to meet with Trump administration officials earlier this week to discuss a dispute over foreign access to its most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company last week disabled access for ‌all users to those ⁠models after Trump ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing them.

Here are some of the details from ⁠the Axios interview:

• When asked if he viewed Anthropic, or its CEO Dario Amodei, as a threat to national security, Trump said: “Well, not ​now, but ​a week ago, maybe.”

• Trump told ​Axios that Amodei responded to ‌the administration’s export control directive “very quickly” and “responsibly.”

• Trump and other G7 leaders met with tech bosses, including Amodei, at a summit in France this week.

• Trump did not rule out using emergency powers under the Defense Production Act against Anthropic, according to Axios.

• “I have ‌the power to use a lot of ​things,” Trump said of the DPA. “But ​I’m not sure I have ​to do that.”

• Asked to comment on Trump’s ‌interview, an Anthropic spokesperson said: “We are ​grateful to the ​administration for their ongoing partnership in working to get this matter resolved as quickly as possible. We remain committed to working ​alongside them towards ‌our shared goals of protecting critical infrastructure and making sure ​the U.S. leads in AI.”

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones ​in Toronto; Editing by Nia Williams)