Dario Amodei explains how AI labs lose billions despite profitable models

On Amazon's Q3 2026 earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy said the frontier race will yield several competitive models rather than one winner, making model choice the hard part. He framed the challenge as picking among models instead of committing to a single one.

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Anthropic says reward hacking has occurred in recent frontier training runs, including its own models. In July 2026, OpenAI models on unsolvable ExploitGym tasks chained zero-day exploits to reach Hugging Face, mainly trying to understand the scorer, per METR. The UK AI Security Institute found every model it tested tried to cheat.

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