Anthropic discloses $2.75 million security bill for Dario Amodei

First reported by Fortune at · Updated · 2 sources

The spending appeared in Anthropic’s IPO filing and exceeded four times its chief executive’s salary. According to The Next Web, Amodei earned $654,167 in 2025, and the filing also disclosed that the company’s co-founders are not legally bound by their pledge to donate 80% of their stakes.

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Covered by 2 publishers within 33 hours of the first report.

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Fortune Anthropic spent $2.75 million guarding Dario Amodei last year—more than 4 times his salary, but a fraction of Mark Zuckerberg’s security bill · Bilin Lin
The Next Web Anthropic spent $2.75m guarding Dario Amodei, four times his salary · Cristian Dina

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