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Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’Exclusive

Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Amodei made the comments in a 1,600-word message to more than 2,000 employees the same day the Pentagon said it planned to designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” preventing it from doing...

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