AI's man of the moment

AxiosSeptember 28, 2026en

Dario Amodei went from a MAGA smear campaign target, to a "Saturday Night Live" punching bag, to a private White House dinner with President Trump — all in the space of 72 hours this weekend. Such is life for the face of AI in America. The big picture: He may not have sought the status, but Anthropic's quirky, intellectual CEO has become the frontman for a technology that seems to be changing the world by the day. In the history of capitalism, there has seldom been a more unusual spokesman for a transformative industry. A physicist by training with links to effective altruism , Amodei runs Anthropic in a way some inside and outside the company have compared to a religious leader . His pencha

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