Discussion

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  I really cannot see how Anthropic's position benefits at this stage from communications like this. Seems it just pushes the Trump Admin to escalate further while also alienating potential allies in the industry. They already had a strong hand. Sometimes silence is best.

• @kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x

  dario has a really rich history of sending wild slack messages to all his staff (from last july https://archive.ph/EUVi5) [image]

• @sspencer_smb Steven Spencer on x

  The AI CEO Wars! Amodei can't stand Altman. Altman can't stand Amodei. Elon can't stand either of them. No one has anything bad to say about Hassabis!

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Dario also encourages Anthropic employees to talk with their OpenAI friends and push back on Sam Altman's narrative - says he's worried this “gaslighting” working on OpenAi staff

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  I wonder how investors — who are scrambling to contain the damage from Anthropic's fallout with the Pentagon — view this memo, coming out at this time. https://x.com/...

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  I'm not super surprised — I've said before that Anthropic has too much of their identity wrapped up in “OAI bad” — but this memo doesn't look great IMO

• @benjaminmmurphy Ben Murphy on x

  It's likely that Anthropic will eventually prevail in court, but the administration has many other ways to make their lives difficult, and they're actively making it harder to deescalate this situation.

• @tukifromkl Tuki on x

  Dario Amodei just ended Sam Altman's entire career in a memo. > calls OpenAI's Pentagon deal “safety theater” > says Sam gave “dictator-style praise to Trump” > names Greg Brockman's $25M Trump super PAC donation > reveals Palantir's actual pitch: “make what is happening [image]

• @jdcmedlock James Medlock on x

  I really appreciate the Anthropic lobbies for AI regulation. In some ways it strikes me as a more meaningful signal than the DoW contract negotiations. And it doesn't strike me as a regulatory capture move.

• @rcbregman Rutger Bregman on x

  My god, FINALLY. After all the cowardly law firms, universities, media networks, tech oligarchs bending the knee, after all their disgusting sucking up to daddy Trump, finally a CEO with a real backbone. Finally a CEO who shows real moral leadership. Dario Amodei, thank you.

• @tenreirodaniel Daniel Tenreiro on x

  I think Anthropic is the best of the labs & they came out of the pentagon affair looking reasonable but Dario sounds absolutely unhinged here

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  This is so silly. Like why would you say this!! Something I think remains underrated is that Sam is the only silicon valley CEO who is like a normal good CEO, like Jamie Dimon, unlike most tech CEOs who are pretty bad with this part of the job, and this also makes ev'one see him

• @austinahlman Austin Ahlman on x

  At a certain point you have to wonder to what extent these comments/leaks are theater in the quest to be the liberal branded AI company. Related: They just dropped $1.6 million in partnership with AIPAC donors to elect a corporate Democrat.

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  see if i was dario i would not put this in writing. but kudos for saying it how it is!

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  He's right but Anthropic was engaged in a bit of safety theater too

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Oh wow....Dario Amodei memo, per @theinformation: “We haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has), we have supported AI regulation which is against their agenda, we've told the truth about a number of AI policy issues (like job displacement), and we've actually […

• @erinkwoo Erin Woo on x

  SCOOP: Dario Amodei sent an explosive memo to Anthropic employees on Friday, calling OpenAI's deal “safety theater” and criticizing the Pentagon, Palantir, OpenAI and the Trump administration writ large. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... with @steph_palazzolo and @srimuppidi [i…

• @steph_palazzolo Stephanie Palazzolo on x

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees on Friday that the OpenAI-Pentagon deal was “safety theater” and the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” He expressed skepticism at the safeguards OpenAI touted. [image]

• @amir Amir Efrati on x

  Anthropic CEO was fired up Friday after OpenAI jumped in to work with Pentagon, criticizing the OpenAI deal and explaining why the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic, according to a newly earthed 1,600-word memo to staff. [image]

• @nickwingfield Nick Wingfield on x

  Whoa, I don't think this is going to turn the temperature down on the Anthropic-Trump Admin relationship. Great scoop from @steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo & @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• @srimuppidi Sri Muppidi on x

  big scoop: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls out OpenAI for “safety theatre” in the Pentagon deal. He adds that the Trump administration doesn't like Anthropic because the company doesn't give “dictator-style praise to Trump.” new/ @steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo

• @jessicalessin Jessica Lessin on x

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...