If you're a major artificial intelligence company worth $183 billion, it might seem like bad business to reveal that, in testing, your AI models resorted to blackmail to avoid being shut down, and, in real life, were recently used by Chinese hackers in a cyber attack on foreign governments. But those disclosures aren't unusual for Anthropic. CEO Dario Amodei has centered his company's brand around transparency and safety, which doesn't seem to have hurt its bottom line. Eighty percent of Anthropic's revenue now comes from businesses — 300,000 of them use its AI models called Claude. Dario Amodei talks a lot about the potential dangers of AI and has repeatedly called for its regulation. But Amodei is also engaged in a multi-trillion dollar arms race, a cutthroat competition to develop a form of intelligence the world has never seen.