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The CEOs of the Mags have each been in the seat for decades. Love them or hate them, they have had tons of reps dealing with every conceivable situation - and have had do it under withering public scrutiny. As a result, what you see is what you get. And what you get is that they are all in-band, predictable actors. Then there’s the emerging case of Dario. What you see is also what you get, but what you get is different. To his credit, this is only his 5th year as CEO. It’s incredible to see what he’s built. He’s running, arguably, America’s most important company and perhaps the world’s. It’s a trillion dollar behemoth that will only grow bigger if the revenues hold. But whenever there is an Anthropic dust up, it can roughly be summarized as “someone is lying or misleading you - figure out who but it’s not me”because the setup is always such. This last episode with the government has been boiled down to that - a case of he said, she said. The problem is that this the second such incident of Anthropic vs US Government just in the last 90 days. So what happens over the next 18mo when Anthropic develops their next super-brain model after Mythos/Fable? If I had to bet, it seems Dario is convinced that he’s being truthful and others including the US Government are not. So why even try to cooperate with the US Government versus just work around them - especially when you have a super tool/weapon on your side. This, to me, is a concerning setup.