Dario Amodei

Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic - Summoned to Pentagon for meeting with Defense Secretary

Anthropic's Claude became the first commercial artificial intelligence model deployed on classified United States military networks in late 2024. Sixteen months later, the Department of Defense is threatening to label the company a "supply chain risk"—a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries like China and Russia—because Anthropic refuses to let the military use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons. The standoff has escalated from a contract negotiation into something larger: the first direct confrontation between an AI company's safety commitments and the federal government's demand for unrestricted access.

Updated 4 days ago

Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic - 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 5 days ago

Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic - 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

Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic - 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

CEO, Anthropic - 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

CEO, Anthropic - 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