Sam Altman Caught in Fallout From Dario Amodei’s Pentagon Standoff

Sure, Sam Altman managed to secure an agreement between OpenAI and the U.S. Department of War amid Anthropic’s public battles with the agency. But in doing so, he may have forfeited something more valuable: public goodwill. The OpenAI CEO acknowledged as much in a social media post, conceding that the deal was rushed. “We shouldn’t have rushed to get this out. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy,” he wrote on X yesterday (March 2).