US President Donald Trump has taken aim at Dario Amodei’s artificial intelligence lab, Anthropic, over its use of AI in war. This move could harm the US’s leading AI pioneer and have far-reaching consequences for Silicon Valley as a whole. The White House government has been targeting Anthropic since Trump returned to power in 2025. Trump is courting other Silicon Valley billionaires but has left out Amodei, indicating a growing rift between the US government and AI innovators.
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Source: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/28/donald-trump-lashes-out-at-anthropic