Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its latest model from the market Friday night. It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases the federal government's Friday action, which had barred Anthropic from allowing non-U.S. users to access its newest model because of potential security vulnerabilities, a senior White House official said. The company raced to send senior leaders to D.C. after multiple hourslong calls among Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross over the weekend. Monday's in-person meetings, held by Commerce and Cairncross' office, were more technical and were led by staff, including Chris Fall. Anthropic gave a presentation explaining its cybersecurity safeguards. The export restriction was the most significant escalation yet in the administration's attempts to regulate the AI industry and the first time the White House has forced a company to remove a model from public access. Anthropic has defended its safeguards since the restrictions were handed down Friday night.