https://www.scmp.com/rss/524287/feed The latest news and top stories on Dario Amodei. An American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur, he is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company known for its Claude large language models. Previously, he served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he was instrumental in developing GPT-2 and GPT-3. With a PhD in physics, Amodei is a prominent advocate for responsible AI development, focusing on interpretability and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cao Jiaxuan Cao Jiaxuan China’s military on Wednesday warned the United States against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to “determine life and death” in warfare, as a dispute between the Pentagon and AI firm Anthropic highlighted growing tensions over military use of the technology. Speaking at a regular briefing in Beijing, defence ministry spokesman Jiang Bin said the “unrestricted application of AI by the military” could “erode ethical constraints and accountability in wars” and risk a “dangerous technological... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346254/china-warns-us-against-granting-ai-ability-determine-life-and-death-battlefield?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346254/china-warns-us-against-granting-ai-ability-determine-life-and-death-battlefield?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:01:09 +0000 Reuters Reuters Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab’s high-stakes battle with the US military over usage restrictions on its technology. Anthropic said in its lawsuit that the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights. The filing in federal court in California asked a judge to undo the designation and block federal ‌agencies from enforcing it. “These actions are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346019/anthropic-sues-us-government-row-over-ai-use-military-deepens?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346019/anthropic-sues-us-government-row-over-ai-use-military-deepens?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:36:30 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse President Donald Trump told the US government on Friday to “immediately” stop using Anthropic’s technology after the AI start-up rejected the Pentagon’s demand that it agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. Anthropic insists its technology should not be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems, while the Pentagon says it operates within the law and that contracted suppliers cannot set terms on how their products are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344946/trump-tells-us-government-immediately-stop-using-anthropic-ai-tech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344946/trump-tells-us-government-immediately-stop-using-anthropic-ai-tech?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:19:58 +0000 Alex Capri Alex Capri 2026 has begun with a worsening trust deficit, as geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China ruptures the international system. Much of this mistrust stems from an escalating technology race. At centre stage is artificial intelligence – the foundational technology for virtually all industries, from hyper-scaled computer networks and data centres to self-learning “cognitive” machines and advanced semiconductor production. The US and China now face a prisoner’s dilemma in military... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3344163/who-will-save-world-us-china-ai-arms-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3344163/who-will-save-world-us-china-ai-arms-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:00:08 +0000 Khushboo Razdan,Bochen Han Khushboo Razdan,Bochen Han A move to curb US President Donald Trump’s power to sell advanced AI chips to China moved a step closer on Wednesday when a Republican-led congressional panel joined hands with their Democratic counterparts, brushing aside objections from the White House and chip giant Nvidia. The action has put Representative Brian Mast, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on a collision course with Trump’s top AI adviser David Sacks and drawn sharp criticism from Maga-aligned... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340751/trumps-decision-sell-ai-chips-china-under-pressure-house-bill-against-deal-advances?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340751/trumps-decision-sell-ai-chips-china-under-pressure-house-bill-against-deal-advances?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:14:09 +0000 Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen The world is witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history, with the foundation for an artificial intelligence system evolving quickly, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “We are now a few hundred billion dollars into it,” he said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Wednesday, adding that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Huang described the AI industry as a “five-layered cake” – energy at the bottom, followed by chips, cloud infrastructure,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:33:09 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Microsoft pledged to invest US$17.5 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing in India over four years, targeting the world’s most populous nation to help fuel its growth. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella made the announcement Tuesday after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, ahead of a tour through the country. Microsoft said the investment will focus on three pillars – scale, skills and sovereignty – which align with Modi’s goal of building a broad... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335847/microsoft-makes-us175-billion-pledge-ai-cloud-india?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335847/microsoft-makes-us175-billion-pledge-ai-cloud-india?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:03:04 +0000 Brian P. Klein Brian P. Klein Warning signs are flashing from experts, entrepreneurs and workers concerned that automation is coming for a wide range of information-oriented jobs. What ordinarily would be just another boom-bust cycle fuelled by computer-generated efficiency, a typewriter to keyboard type of evolution, is this time threatening to overturn the basic social contract between employers and employees. Unless and until this is taken seriously by policymakers, the modern middle class risks becoming a relic of... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3333190/will-ai-kill-middle-class?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3333190/will-ai-kill-middle-class?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:30:10 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Anthropic plans to spend US$50 billion to build custom data centres for artificial intelligence work in several US locations, including Texas and New York, the latest expensive pledge for infrastructure to support the AI boom. The new sites, which Anthropic is developing with UK-based Fluidstack, would start coming online throughout 2026, the company said Wednesday in a statement. The project marks the first major data centre buildout that the AI firm has taken on directly, rather than through... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3332569/anthropic-commits-us50-billion-build-ai-data-centres-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3332569/anthropic-commits-us50-billion-build-ai-data-centres-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:13:23 +0000 Ben Jiang,Vincent Chow Ben Jiang,Vincent Chow TikTok parent ByteDance has pulled the plug on US technology firm Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models on its Singapore-based coding app Trae after the American AI firm began restricting services to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world. Trae confirmed in a post published to its official Discord channel on Wednesday that it had discontinued access to the Claude model, citing an “interruption of the Claude series model”. Trae said that its integration of other top models from... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3331638/tech-war-bytedance-cuts-claude-model-after-anthropic-restricts-china-access?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3331638/tech-war-bytedance-cuts-claude-model-after-anthropic-restricts-china-access?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:03:19 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo CEOs all used to wear suits and ties like uniforms, and focus only on their own business when speaking in public. The late Steve Jobs was considered radical for promoting Apple products while wearing turtlenecks and jeans. These days though, when it comes to billionaire tech bros, there are no attire restrictions, and no subjects are off bounds. In fact, there are no such things as core competencies. Since they are good in some tech fields, many think they are geniuses over everything else. Not... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3329589/americas-billionaire-tech-bros-are-bringing-us-closer-end-times?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3329589/americas-billionaire-tech-bros-are-bringing-us-closer-end-times?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:05:09 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI start-up’s “anti-China statements” as a key reason for his departure. Yao Shunyu, according to a post on his website on Monday, left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind, partly because of his “strong” opposition to the start-up’s characterisation of China as an “adversarial nation” and its broader rhetoric. Anthropic labelled China as so last month when it... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328222/anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-exit-star-ai-researcher?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328222/anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-exit-star-ai-researcher?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:00:16 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow An abrupt decision by American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to restrict service to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world has cast uncertainty over some Claude-dependent overseas tools backed by China’s tech giants. After Anthropic’s notice on Friday that it would upgrade access restrictions to entities “more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered in unsupported regions” such as China, regardless of where they are, Chinese users have fretted over whether they could... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3324583/tech-war-anthropics-claude-restrictions-put-overseas-ai-tools-backed-china-limbo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3324583/tech-war-anthropics-claude-restrictions-put-overseas-ai-tools-backed-china-limbo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:00:14 +0000 Reuters Reuters Jonathan Kim, a would-be US software engineer, began his job search over 50 weeks ago, tracking his efforts on a spreadsheet. He applied for more than 600 software engineering jobs. Six companies replied. Two gave him a technical screening. None have made him an offer. That was not the plan when Kim paid nearly US$20,000 in 2023 for an intensive part-time coding boot camp he thought would equip him to land a software engineering job. “They sold a fake dream of a great job market,” said Kim, 29,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3321404/ai-eliminates-entry-level-software-engineering-roles-coding-boot-camps-are-decline?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3321404/ai-eliminates-entry-level-software-engineering-roles-coding-boot-camps-are-decline?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:45:08 +0000