Revenge of the Nerd: Trump Kinda Seems to Like Anthropic’s CEO
When the Pentagon launched a campaign against Anthropic for not bending the knee earlier this year, it seemed like President Donald Trump was fully on board. Let us present one theory for what’s behind this shift: Trump thinks Amodei is the perfect nerd for selling AI. Straight out of central casting, as Trump might say.
- ▪When the Pentagon launched a campaign against Anthropic for not bending the knee earlier this year, it seemed like President Donald Trump was fully on board.
- ▪Let us present one theory for what’s behind this shift: Trump thinks Amodei is the perfect nerd for selling AI.
- ▪Straight out of central casting, as Trump might say.
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When the Pentagon launched a campaign against Anthropic for not bending the knee earlier this year, it seemed like President Donald Trump was fully on board. But something changed this week, as the world watched Trump standing next to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000820378","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,artificial-intelligence,dario-amodei,donald-trump","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Trump seems to genuinely like Amodei, at least out in public.
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