Before they send you their receipts, check theirs.

Donated $20 million to Public First Action PAC opposing AI deregulation under the Trump administration. Lobbying spending more than tripled between 2024 and 2025. In March 2026, after being labeled a Pentagon "supply-chain risk" for refusing to allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance, Anthropic sued the Trump administration. CEO Amodei called the designation illegal retaliation against protected speech.

Endorsed Kamala Harris and donated $214K+ to Democratic candidates before 2024 election, including to Biden, Clinton, and the DNC. Wrote a now-deleted Facebook post calling Trump "a serious and legitimate threat to the rule of law." In February 2026 a leaked internal memo showed Amodei told ~2,000 Anthropic staff the Trump administration was hostile to the company because it had not given "dictator-style praise" to Trump and refused to donate to him. He publicly apologized after the memo leaked.

Cut nearly half of Block's workforce (4,000+ employees, reducing from 10,000 to ~6,000) in February 2026, citing AI replacing human roles. Said "100 people + AI = 1,000 people" and predicted most companies would make similar cuts within a year. Critics and a former exec alleged the cuts were standard cost-cutting disguised as AI transformation.

Block eliminated diversity and inclusion roles as part of its 2025-2026 restructuring. Former head of communications at Square noted that cuts to policy and DEI teams were evidence of "standard prioritization and cost management" rather than AI-driven transformation, per a NYT essay.