{"id":46963,"date":"2026-03-06T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/dario-amodei-says-hes-sorry-for-the-tone-he-took-in-a-leaked-internal-message-criticizing-the-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:31:19","slug":"dario-amodei-says-hes-sorry-for-the-tone-he-took-in-a-leaked-internal-message-criticizing-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/dario-amodei-says-hes-sorry-for-the-tone-he-took-in-a-leaked-internal-message-criticizing-the-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Dario Amodei says he&#8217;s sorry for the &#8216;tone&#8217; he took in a leaked internal message criticizing the Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68cb602a57d362d375e86197?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Dario Amodei\"\/><figcaption>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has previously warned about job losses due to AI.<\/p>\n<p>Chance Yeh\/Getty Images for HubSpot<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apologized for the &quot;tone&quot; he took in a leaked internal memo criticizing the Trump administration.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It was a difficult day for the company,&quot; Amodei wrote in a statement on Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dario Amodei apologized for a leaked internal message that took aim at the Trump administration&#039;s move to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my careful or considered views. It was also written six days ago, and is an out-of-date assessment of the current situation,&quot; Amodei wrote in a Thursday statement published on Anthropic&#039;s website.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Anthropic did not leak the post or ask anyone else to do it, and said that the company&#039;s &quot;most important priority right now is making sure that our warfighters and national security experts are not deprived of important tools in the middle of major combat operations.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to Amodei, Anthropic has had &quot;productive conversations&quot; with the Defense Department &quot;about ways we could serve the Department that adhere to our two narrow exceptions, and ways for us to ensure a smooth transition if that is not possible.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However, Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said in a post on X on Thursday that the Department of War is not in any negotiation with the AI startup.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon on Thursday notified Anthropic that &quot;the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately.&quot; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the designation means companies holding defense contracts are effectively barred from doing business with the AI firm.<\/p>\n<p>The designation comes after a standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the company&#039;s Claude models could be used. Anthropic has said it will not permit its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei said the company intends to challenge the Pentagon&#039;s decision in court.<\/p>\n<p>In the leaked memo to Anthropic employees obtained by The Information, Amodei wrote the Trump administration opposed the company because it hadn&#039;t donated to the president or offered the kind of &quot;dictator-style&quot; praise he said competitors had.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Economist published Friday, Amodei apologized for the message and said he wouldn&#039;t characterize it as a formal memo.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I post things in Slack. I post them a lot. And the culture within the company is that I&#039;m very free, and you know, it&#039;s not a really considered or refined version of my thinking. It&#039;s not what I would say on reflection,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has previously warned about job losses due to AI. Chance Yeh\/Getty Images for HubSpot Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apologized for the &quot;tone&quot; he took in a leaked internal memo criticizing the Trump administration. &quot;It was a difficult day for the company,&quot; Amodei wrote in a statement on Thursday. 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