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    Dario Amodei

    Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

    Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic

    Background

    Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur.

    In 2021, he and his sister, Daniela Amodei, co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude.

    Before that, he was vice president of research at OpenAI.

    About Anthropic

    Anthropic: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. It builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

    Key facts

    Born
    1983, in San Francisco, Californiasource
    Anthropic
    Co-founded in 2021 with his sister, Daniela Amodeisource
    Education
    Doctorate in biophysics from Princeton Universitysource
    OpenAI
    Joined in 2016source
    Public statement
    In September 2026, called for the technology industry to slow the pace of AI developmentsource

    WYDE coverage of Dario Amodei

    WYDE Newsroom has published 5 articles about Dario Amodei, from Feb 28, 2026 to Sep 24, 2026. Dario Amodei is a named leader in 5 stories. The most recent is AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control.

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    AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control

    The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI.

    Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    AI

    A New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down

    A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.

    Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    AI

    OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Have Been Coordinating on AI Safety for Weeks

    OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three leading AI labs have spent weeks coordinating on frontier AI safety, weighing an industry standards body and independent verification, even as the White House dismisses the risks.

    Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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    Anthropic Moves to Close the Loopholes Chinese Firms Use to Reach Claude

    After a Financial Times report detailed Singapore subsidiaries, VPN reimbursements, and transfer station relays, Anthropic is monitoring time zones and usage patterns to enforce a ban that neither US nor Chinese law covers.

    Jul 5, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    Government & Fraud

    Trump Orders All Federal Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic Technology

    Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology. Defense Secretary Hegseth declared the AI company a supply chain risk to national security.

    Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    Reported alongside Dario Amodei

    Sources

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