Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views

In 2023, as Dario Amodei was fundraising for the company’s $750 million Series D round, an investor was seated with the CEO at a dinner when he recalled him getting worked up in a conversation about safety issues around artificial intelligence.

“When he was talking about the risks of AI, he contorted,” says the investor. “His body twisted. He was really emotionally showing how scared he was.”

It made an impression on the investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of impact to their business...