{"id":1048887,"date":"2026-11-12T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048887"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:32:16","slug":"dario-amodei-wanted-openai-to-stop-taking-peter-thiels-money-over-a-1-25-million-campaign-donation-called-thiel-morally-worthy-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/12\/dario-amodei-wanted-openai-to-stop-taking-peter-thiels-money-over-a-1-25-million-campaign-donation-called-thiel-morally-worthy-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Dario Amodei wanted OpenAI to stop taking Peter Thiel\u2019s money over a $1.25 million campaign donation; called Thiel morally worthy of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once wanted OpenAI to stop taking money from billionaire investor Peter Thiel. The trigger was the $1.25 million Thiel gave to support Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, a move Amodei said made him \u201cmorally worthy of condemnation.\u201d At the time, Amodei was a few months into his job at OpenAI, where he led the safety team. He posted the remarks on the company\u2019s internal messaging app, according to a report by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel\u2019s money found its way to Amodei anyway, a decade later. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm Thiel co-founded, made its first direct investment in Anthropic in February this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once wanted OpenAI to stop taking money from billionaire investor Peter Thiel. The trigger was the $1.25 million Thiel gave to support Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, a move Amodei said made him \u201cmorally worthy of condemnation.\u201d At the time, Amodei was a few months into his job at OpenAI, where he led the safety team. He posted the remarks on the company\u2019s internal messaging app, according to a report by The New York Times. Thiel\u2019s money found its way to Amodei anyway, a decade later. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm Thiel co-founded, made its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048888,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048887\/revisions\/1048888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}