29 October 2026

Anthropic's $2.75 million security spend on Dario Amodei exceeds his salary

First reported

TechRadar ran this on , 3 days before the next source picked it up.

  • Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, spent $2.75 million guarding CEO Dario Amodei last year.
  • That is more than four times his salary, though far below the security bill Meta spends on Mark Zuckerberg.
  • The figures show how much AI firms now pay to protect their leaders, amid rising public and corporate concern about AI.

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