Anthropic's Lonely Stand as AI Employees Ask Washington to Hit Pause

Anthropic is the most valuable startup in the world and the most isolated AI lab in America. The Claude maker was the only major frontier AI company that refused to sign an Nvidia-led open letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight models — a letter that eventually included Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and two dozen others. CEO Dario Amodei spent days in awkward silence before clarifying that Anthropic has "never advocated for a ban" on open-weight systems,...