Amodei: California AI bill advocated by Anthropic exempts sub-$500M revenue companies
Dario Amodei · The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath · Feb 24, 2026 · at 16:42
Dario Amodei pushes back against Nikhil Kamath's suggestion that AI regulation serves as regulatory capture to block startups.
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“The regulation we've advocated for example, SB in California exempted everyone who makes under five hundred million dollars a year in, in in, in, in revenue, right? SB, SB was a transparency law, which you know basically requires companies to you know, to show you know, the safety and security tests that they've run. And it exempts all companies under five hundred million in revenue. So it really only applies to Anthropic and three or four other companies.”
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