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Policy2026-06-18 · source-backed
The Anthropic CEO argues the core problem is a timing mismatch, capability on an exponential while policy moves at traditional speed, and names five priorities: pre-deployment testing, labor disruption, scientific regulation, civil liberties, and a democratic-country alliance. He calls enduring job displacement "undesirable and dangerous" and warns of a "super growth, super inequality" outcome. The clearest written map yet of Anthropic's regulatory agenda. (darioamodei.com)
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The most capable Claude tier is now government-gated. Let that sink in for a second. Not export-controlled to China, not restricted to enterprise. Gated by Commerce, for a U.S. company's U.S. customers. A June 26 letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick partially lifted t...
New court declarations reveal Under Secretary Michael emailed Dario Amodei on March 4 saying the two sides were "very close" on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance — the exact issues the Pentagon later cited as evidence Anthropic poses an "unacceptable national security r...
The first substantive regulation push, stemming from the June executive order on AI cybersecurity that laid out an opt-in review approach, with Dario Amodei among the attendees. It follows an open letter signed by more than 1,200 senior staff across the major labs asking the g...
Day 9 of the blackout, and the reporting finally caught up to the politics. According to Tom's Hardware, the export-control shutdown of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a cold bureaucratic move. White House AI adviser David Sacks says the administration asked Dario Amodei to...
Per a French presidency list reported by Bloomberg, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis are slated to attend. The frontier-lab leaders are now physically in the room where global AI governance gets debated. Whatever you think of that, it's where the rules will get sha...
Dario Amodei's statement outlined two non-negotiable red lines: no mass domestic surveillance and no fully autonomous weapons removing human judgment from targeting. He called the Pentagon's threats "inherently contradictory" — simultaneously labeling Anthropic a security risk...
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