Dario Amodei says Anthropic faces 'incredible' pressure balancing safety with profit

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on the Dwarkesh podcast that the company struggles to maintain its safety commitments under commercial pressure. "We're under an incredible amount of commercial pressure, and we make it even harder for ourselves because we have all this safety stuff," he said. The comments come after Anthropic closed a $30B Series G at $380B valuation. The tension is visible in the Pentagon standoff: Anthropic wants guardrails on military use of Claude, while competitors like OpenAI are deepening defense partnerships.

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