Even before the two men clashed over the Pentagon’s use of artificial intelligence, Dario Amodei had been ramping up attacks on his former boss Sam Altman and the direction of OpenAI, a company they built together. In communication with colleagues in recent months, the Anthropic CEO has compared the legal battle between Altman and Elon Musk to the fight between Hitler and Stalin, dubbed a $25 million donation by OpenAI President Greg Brockman to a pro-Trump super political-action committee “evil,” and likened OpenAI and other rivals to tobacco companies knowingly hawking a harmful product. This brand strategy is known internally…

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