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Benzinga reports that Anthropic employee Sholto Douglas called the alleged one-private-company statement completely false, while Amodei publicly rejected a concentration-versus-distribution framing and argued regulation could strengthen competition. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Anthropic Left as the Only Private Company in the World? CEO Dario Amodei Pushes Back on Criticism · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d255df5da517a7d8b94475793fd1d6b0f2585fb5e42b23260df4127e8f39f380

An Anthropic employee, Sholto Douglas, called the statement “completely false” ... Amodei rejected that framing. “I think that ‘either concentrate it in the hands of a chosen few companies and politicians via regulation or distribute it widely’ is a false choice.”