Altman told staff he tried to “save” Anthropic in Pentagon clash

(Maria Curi, Zachary Basu – Axios) As Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon were collapsing, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees he was trying to “save” his competitor, according to internal Slack messages seen by Axios. At the same time, Altman privately vented that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had spent years trying to undermine him. The messages reveal Altman’s conflicted thinking as OpenAI swooped in to secure a Pentagon contract Anthropic had just lost — portraying himself as a peacemaker even as his company emerged as the primary beneficiary. – Scoop: Altman told staff he tried to “save” Anthropic in Pentagon clash