> note who it'a NOT addressed to

The CEO is also not the addressee of shipments of urinal cakes.

There is a deep, deep ignorance of export controls on HN, and I fully expect it will play out as another 500 comment thread of snark and incorrecting each other while blaming the government and not understanding a word of it.

FWIW an Empowered Official is not the person who cleans the espresso machine.

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electriclove 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ha! But sorry, Dario has failed at this part of the job. It’s good that Tom is there and that there is plenty of other strong talent there.

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naturalmovement 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Dario's job is to be a cheerleader.

He likely does not have the domain knowledge nor is authorized to be the recipient of such a letter.

And that's ok. His role is to hire others competent in export matters. It's a learning experience for them.

	▲	nl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think you are missing some context here. One of the contributing factors that led to this control in the first place was that the commerce department couldn't get Dario on a call immediately: "Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat.... When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett." https://x.com/SophiaCai99/status/2065942612293365948 Anthropic has disputed that Dario was at a wellness retreat but both sides seem agree that it seemed to be a problem (and it is very apparent that Dario's response made things worse).

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philovivero an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Your comment, genius. Makes me miss n-gate dotcom, which hasn't been updated since 2021. This comment would make a great entry. If you aren't familiar with it, you really want to be.