I aspired to have fun in the beautiful, curvaceous new wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – before my high heels began to hurt. Harris was upset about Altman’s new deal with the Pentagon to provide AI for classified use. I called him after the party to hear the whole drama – a classic story of art rebuking commerce. Amodei did not want his AI to be used for surveillance of Americans or to run autonomous weapons without human oversight. In a leaked memo to his staff, Amodei fumed that Altman was spinning, gaslighting and undercutting Anthropic.

Source: The Irish Times March 22, 2026 15:46 UTC