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Dario Amodei

The latest news and top stories on Dario Amodei. An American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur, he is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company known for its Claude large language models. Previously, he served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he was instrumental in developing GPT-2 and GPT-3. With a PhD in physics, Amodei is a prominent advocate for responsible AI development, focusing on interpretability and steerable systems. He has warned about AI's potential to displace white-collar jobs and emphasises building safe, trustworthy AI. His work reflects a commitment to mitigating AI risks.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba AI beats Google and OpenAI in global coding rankings

The Chinese tech giant is the only non-US firm to crack the top five in Code Arena’s latest leaderboard.

27 May 2026 - 8:15PM

Pope Leo XIV

‘Human dignity’: Pope Leo, Anthropic to launch pontiff’s first AI document

18 May 2026 - 10:47PM

Artificial intelligence

From scepticism to concern: Mythos panic is slowly starting to reach China

27 Apr 2026 - 10:00AM

United States

White House and Anthropic CEO discuss working together amid Mythos AI fears

The model’s capabilities give it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities – and to ‌exploit them.

18 Apr 2026 - 7:17AM

Anthropic and the Pentagon have been caught in a dispute over how the company’s models should be used. Photo illustration: Reuters

Technology

Opinion | AI pessimism is a luxury the Global South cannot afford

Young, developing states must ride the tech waves if they don’t want to fall further behind and learn from others’ mistakes.

12 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM

Artificial intelligence

China warns US against letting AI ‘determine life and death’ on battlefield

China believes that human primacy must be upheld in military applications of AI, defence ministry spokesman says.

11 Mar 2026 - 11:03PMvideocam

United States

Anthropic sues Trump administration as row over AI use by military deepens

The Pentagon blacklisted the start-up after it refused to let its technology be used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.

10 Mar 2026 - 1:13PM

The Pentagon on Thursday slapped a formal supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic, limiting use of a technology that a source said was being used for military operations in Iran. Photo illustration: TNS

United States

Anthropic vows to sue US after Trump tells government to stop using firm’s AI

The start-up has refused to let its models be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems.

28 Feb 2026 - 2:16PM

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | Who will save the world from a US-China AI arms race?

Unrestrained military AI could doom us all. The window for a global middle-power alliance to rein in the superpowers is closing fast.

21 Feb 2026 - 1:00PMvideocam

US-China trade war

Trump’s decision to sell AI chips to China under pressure as House bill advances

A key Republican challenges White House AI czar and Nvidia despite Maga backlash; it must still pass both chambers and get Trump’s signature.

22 Jan 2026 - 7:18AMvideocam

The Trump administration approved the sale of Nvidia’s H200 chip to China earlier this month. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

AI shaping world’s biggest infrastructure buildout: Nvidia CEO

Each country should build their own AI system, incorporating its own language and culture into the AI models, Huang says at the WEF in Davos.

21 Jan 2026 - 10:21PMvideocam

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country of 1.45 billion people is increasingly drawing the attention of AI power brokers as a market and a source of talent and data.

10 Dec 2025 - 12:03PM

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | Will AI kill the middle class?

When the creators of a new technology warn that it could destroy the primary engine of global growth of the past half a century, it’s worth paying attention.

20 Nov 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

13 Nov 2025 - 10:13AM

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. Photo: AP

Artificial intelligence

Tech war: ByteDance drops Claude after Anthropic restricts China access

ByteDance-backed coding app Trae reassures users after they complain of losing low-cost access to top AI coding model.

5 Nov 2025 - 6:03PM

ByteDance-backed coding app Trae tells users it will deliver “the same high-quality product performance as before”. Photo: AFP

My Take

My Take | America’s billionaire tech bros are bringing us closer to the end times

Whether it’s the Antichrist, the eugenic need to propagate smart babies to colonise Mars, or Cold War rhetoric against China, they are imposing eccentric and often dangerous ideas on the public.

19 Oct 2025 - 9:06PM

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

8 Oct 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic’s Claude restrictions put overseas AI tools backed by China in limbo

Amid the confusion, some Chinese AI companies have taken the opportunity to woo disgruntled users.

7 Sep 2025 - 7:00AM

Artificial intelligence

As AI eliminates entry-level roles, coding boot camps are on decline

Coding boot camps have been a Silicon Valley mainstay for years, but the entry-level developer roles they train for are rapidly disappearing.

11 Aug 2025 - 11:45AMvideocam

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Dario Amodei

Alibaba AI beats Google and OpenAI in global coding rankings

The Chinese tech giant is the only non-US firm to crack the top five in Code Arena’s latest leaderboard.

‘Human dignity’: Pope Leo, Anthropic to launch pontiff’s first AI document

From scepticism to concern: Mythos panic is slowly starting to reach China

White House and Anthropic CEO discuss working together amid Mythos AI fears

The model’s capabilities give it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities – and to ‌exploit them.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Opinion | AI pessimism is a luxury the Global South cannot afford

Young, developing states must ride the tech waves if they don’t want to fall further behind and learn from others’ mistakes.

China warns US against letting AI ‘determine life and death’ on battlefield

China believes that human primacy must be upheld in military applications of AI, defence ministry spokesman says.

Anthropic sues Trump administration as row over AI use by military deepens

The Pentagon blacklisted the start-up after it refused to let its technology be used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.

Anthropic vows to sue US after Trump tells government to stop using firm’s AI

The start-up has refused to let its models be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems.

Opinion | Who will save the world from a US-China AI arms race?

Unrestrained military AI could doom us all. The window for a global middle-power alliance to rein in the superpowers is closing fast.

Trump’s decision to sell AI chips to China under pressure as House bill advances

A key Republican challenges White House AI czar and Nvidia despite Maga backlash; it must still pass both chambers and get Trump’s signature.

AI shaping world’s biggest infrastructure buildout: Nvidia CEO

Each country should build their own AI system, incorporating its own language and culture into the AI models, Huang says at the WEF in Davos.

Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country of 1.45 billion people is increasingly drawing the attention of AI power brokers as a market and a source of talent and data.

Opinion | Will AI kill the middle class?

When the creators of a new technology warn that it could destroy the primary engine of global growth of the past half a century, it’s worth paying attention.

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

Tech war: ByteDance drops Claude after Anthropic restricts China access

ByteDance-backed coding app Trae reassures users after they complain of losing low-cost access to top AI coding model.

My Take | America’s billionaire tech bros are bringing us closer to the end times

Whether it’s the Antichrist, the eugenic need to propagate smart babies to colonise Mars, or Cold War rhetoric against China, they are imposing eccentric and often dangerous ideas on the public.

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

Anthropic’s Claude restrictions put overseas AI tools backed by China in limbo

Amid the confusion, some Chinese AI companies have taken the opportunity to woo disgruntled users.

As AI eliminates entry-level roles, coding boot camps are on decline

Coding boot camps have been a Silicon Valley mainstay for years, but the entry-level developer roles they train for are rapidly disappearing.

Opinion | AI pessimism is a luxury the Global South cannot afford