IN LEAKED MEMO, ANTHROPIC CEO SAYS COMPANY WILL PURSUE GULF STATE INVESTMENTS AFTER ALL

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Dario Amodei acknowledged that allowing Middle East leaders to invest in Anthropic would likely enrich "dictators" but argued that "no bad person should ever benefit from our success" is a difficult operating principle. The shift marks Anthropic's attempt to stay competitive with rivals, like OpenAI, which is building data centers in the UAE as part of the Stargate project, while maintaining its safety-first principles.