Dario Amodei

New Capabilities

Leading Anthropic's response to Mythos disclosure while managing ongoing Pentagon litigation

An AI model that can find software flaws no human has caught in nearly three decades has triggered a coordinated response from central banks across the Western world. Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, which the company says discovered thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, prompted the US Treasury and Federal Reserve to summon Wall Street chief executives to Washington on April 8. By April 11, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, and their respective financial regulators had convened or scheduled their own emergency sessions with banks.

Updated 3 days ago

Money Moves

Leading Anthropic through IPO preparation

Anthropic offered employees up to $6 billion in liquidity through a tender offer at a $350 billion valuation — the same price as its February fundraising round. Employees mostly said no. The sale completed in early April well below its target because staff chose to hold their shares, betting that the company's planned initial public offering (IPO) later in 2026 will deliver a higher price.

Updated 4 days ago

New Capabilities

Leading Anthropic's restricted release strategy for Mythos

Anthropic built an AI model so good at finding software vulnerabilities that it decided not to sell it. Claude Mythos Preview, announced April 7, autonomously discovered thousands of previously unknown security flaws in every major operating system and web browser — including bugs that had survived decades of human and automated review. Rather than offering the model commercially, Anthropic restricted access to 12 major technology companies through a new initiative called Project Glasswing, backed by $100 million in usage credits.

Updated 5 days ago

Rule Changes

Leading federal lawsuits against Pentagon over supply chain designation

Anthropic's Claude became the first commercial AI model deployed on classified U.S. military networks in late 2024. Over sixteen months later, the Department of Defense formally designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk"—a label historically reserved for foreign adversaries—after the company refused to permit Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons. The unprecedented action followed failed negotiations and President Trump's directive to cease federal use of Anthropic tech, forcing contractors to cut ties.

Updated Mar 10

Rule Changes

Leading company through federal blacklisting; six-month phaseout period underway

For decades, the United States military chose its weapons contractors and the contractors complied. Artificial intelligence changed that equation. On March 3, OpenAI and the Department of Defense amended a freshly signed AI contract to explicitly ban the use of the technology for domestic surveillance of American citizens—a concession the Pentagon had refused to grant Anthropic just days earlier, triggering that company's blacklisting from all federal agencies.

Updated Mar 3

New Capabilities

Leading Anthropic's expansion into enterprise tooling

An estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code still run in production every day, processing 95% of ATM transactions and roughly $3 trillion in daily commerce. For decades, understanding and modernizing that code has required large teams of specialized consultants working for months or years. On February 23, Anthropic published a playbook showing how its Claude Code tool can automate the most labor-intensive phases of that work—mapping dependencies, documenting workflows, and identifying risks across thousands of files—and IBM shares immediately fell 13.2%, their worst single-day drop in more than 25 years.

Updated Feb 23

New Capabilities

Advocating for AI safety while warning of displacement

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on February 13, 2026 that most white-collar work—accounting, legal, marketing, project management—will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. It's the most aggressive timeline yet from a major tech executive, and it comes as AI coding assistants already generate 46% of code at companies using GitHub Copilot.

Updated Feb 14

Money Moves

Leading company through hypergrowth phase

Three years ago, Anthropic had not yet earned a dollar in revenue. This week, it closed a $30 billion funding round—the second-largest private tech raise in history—at a $380 billion valuation. The company now generates $14 billion in annualized revenue, having grown tenfold in each of the past three years.

Updated Feb 13

New Capabilities

Leading mechanistic interpretability research to understand AI models

MIT Technology Review dropped its 25th annual list of breakthrough technologies on January 12, 2026—250 predictions over a quarter century. This year's ten picks span sodium-ion batteries poised to power the next generation of cheap EVs, generative AI that's rewriting how software gets built, and personalized CRISPR treatments custom-made for individual babies. The list includes embryo screening for intelligence that's reigniting eugenics debates and hyperscale data centers devouring city-sized power loads to train AI models.

Updated Jan 12

New Capabilities

Scaling Anthropic's enterprise business with safety-focused reasoning models

OpenAI's GPT-5 dropped on August 7, 2025, completing AI's transformation from chatbots that string words together to systems that actually think through problems step-by-step. Google DeepMind's reasoning models won gold at the International Math Olympiad, solving problems only five human contestants cracked. Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and every major AI lab sprinted to build models that pause, plan, and reason rather than just predict the next word.

Updated Jan 8