Inside Anthropic: What The Bloomberg Documentary Reveals
TL;DR Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang went inside Anthropic in a rare, in-depth episode released June 10, 2026. Dario and Daniela Amodei discuss the founding story, the Pentagon dispute, and why they say safety and commercial success are the same bet. Anthropic is now valued at $965 billion, eclipsing OpenAI’s $852 billion for the first time, after an 80-fold revenue surge in Q1 2026. The Pentagon story is not PR - Anthropic refused to remove safety guardrails from its military contract, was blacklisted by the Trump administration, and sued. A federal judge sided with Anthropic. A confidential S-1 IPO filing in June 2026 means this stops being a private company conversation soon. The Bloomberg Documentary: Emily Chang Inside Anthropic Bloomberg’s The Circuit has done this kind of access piece before - Zuckerberg, Musk, Jensen Huang. But the Anthropic episode feels different in tone. Emily Chang is not sitting across from a founder who has already won. She is sitting across from two founders in the middle of one of the most consequential moments in the company’s short history: record valuation, Pentagon litigation, IPO on the horizon, and model releases arriving fast enough that the competitive landscape changes every few months. ...
