🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic CEO just did a complete 180 in live interview
— NIK (@ns123abc) March 6, 2026
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Anthropic CEO:
>“I want to completely apologize for this memo”
>“it was among the most disorienting times in Anthropic’s history”
>“i… pic.twitter.com/MTodBFhebU
March 6, 2026
Which CEO did the better job of humiliating himself in the theater of corporate enthusiasm?
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I'm disappointed with the McDonalds video. So it wasn't a huge bite. So what? How is this blowing up?
Anthropic, on the other hand...the CEO posts things about his company on slack without thinking it through!? That guy should never again be allowed on social media.
"tim maguire said...
I'm disappointed with the McDonalds video. So it wasn't a huge bite. So what? How is this blowing up?"
Dumbest take I've seen in a while. He calls the thing "product" multiple times. He treats the burger like it has the clap. Smallest nibble possible. DOes that make you want to go out there and try one? The whole thing is so phony.
Seen elsewhere on the web:
He ate that burger like a gay man eats pussy.
It’s harder to be an influencer than it looks.
That burger guy is no salesman.
The Anthropic dude, well, hes one of those guys you keep in the back room making the burgers.
Curious George said...Dumbest take I've seen in a while. He calls the thing "product" multiple times. He treats the burger like it has the clap. Smallest nibble possible.
If that's enough to make it the dumbest take you've seen in a while, then you have one rarified social media habit. You should get out more.
The Anthropic dude looked like a gay man apologizing to his boyfriend after getting caught eating pussy.
Anthropic? Why adopt a company name so susceptible to negative connotation with the addition of a prefix, which is more in common usage than the root? Misanthropic.
Why does every thought have to be posted and made public? Everyone from Trump on down should take a reflective moment before they speak or post on whatever. Or maybe just STFU.
@Bob Boyd is today's winner of the internet.
"I...er...umm...how do I hold this th....um...maybe if I stare at it long enough I'll figure i....hmm...welp, OK....HERE WE GO."
That Arch sammich looks good to me, good enough to eat as they say.
So, whose idea was it to have the vegan-looking CEO debut it for the world? They didn't hire Alissa Heinerscheid, did they?
Doesn’t help that he looks like the current corp model of the gender free sissy.
Every first time Senator looks at JFK and Obama and says why not me. I bet that there's a fair number of CEO's that look to Mr. Perdue and the OG Kentucky Colonel and say why not me. It's all very well to be CEO, but being famous is what's really cool. I'm sure the ad exec advised him of how his magnetism shone through, but he just doesn't look like a burger lover. On the plus side, he looks more like a burger lover than Dylan Mulvaney looks like a beer drinker........Some CEO's can sell the brand. Trump goes with luxury condos like ham with eggs.... I'm not sure what brand, other than herself, Noemi was selling, but it didn't work. She became famous for wanting to become famous.....I don't know about Musk. His persona definitely sells space exploration and high tech stuff, but his politics probably don't help him sell cars.
Anthropic guy is pure nerd, goofy in a honest way, and knows he screwed up. The McDonalds guy is very strange. Reminds me of people who have a phobia of germs -- surprised he wasn't wearing plastic gloves. Cant believe his crew let him do that. Someone doesn't like him and wants him gone.
My BFF Gemini tells me "The McDonald's Big Arch burger generally costs between $7.46 and $12.99 for the sandwich alone, depending on the location, with an average price around $8.50–$9."
Seems a little pricey to me.
Meh, I thought it looked like a typical TV-style bite that is purposefully small so you can start speaking again more quickly. But then, that's what jump cuts are for.
He gives off a "I let my wife peg me" vibe.
Just remember, the biggest news in Tyler, TX is the lizard holding on in traffic.
Burger CEO trolled McD CEO by making a video of him trying the new and improved Whopper. https://www.instagram.com/p/DVZoZQJjti8/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
"tim maguire said...
If that's enough to make it the dumbest take you've seen in a while, then you have one rarified social media habit. You should get out more."
Awesome comeback. "There is much worse than me!"
I'm ok with the McDonald's guy. It goes to show why they have a marketing department that hires actors.
As for Anthropic, if that bumbling idiot was their CEO, then all their investors don't deserve a dime of their money back after giving it to that fool. Dario Amodei makes Sam Bankman-Fried seem responsible.
Everyone in America this week was talking about McDonald's and their new sandwich. I'd say that's a big win for their dork of a CEO.
I've followed the major AI companies for awhile. As far as I can tell, the Anthropic CEO has been the most honest in his public remarks, which often have the character of thinking out loud. That sort of open thoughtfulness doesn't always play well in the world today, as he seems to be realizing. The other AI CEOs range from awkward (Musk) to downright creepy (Altman). Anthropic's Amodei seems like the only one who truly wrestles with the potential dangers and benefits of AI honestly. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing for the company remains to be seen, but I appreciate what he is trying to do.
I don't know much about the CEO of McDonald's, so I won't say that he doesn't like hamburgers, but if you can't convincingly act like you do like them, you shouldn't be eating them on camera.
The McDonalds' CEO looks like a vegan to me.
"The McDonald's Big Arch burger generally costs between $7.46 and $12.99 for the sandwich alone"
I actually went to get one yesterday, because I saw the commercial, and I wanted to try it. It was $5.35 for just the sandwich alone. I'm on a diet, and I'm very cheap, so I talked myself out of it. I won the battle with my desires, but there is a rematch brewing today.
"Everyone in America this week was talking about McDonald's and their new sandwich."
Not everyone. This is the first I've heard of it. Guess I need to get out a little more?
People are talking about a new product. That's a win.
A worthwhile read if you're interested in the supposed "guardrails" of the DOD AI contract fiasco. There are no guardrails. As is so often the case, it's warm-fuzzies and "safety theatre". There are no laws made by the entity that makes them that can't be broken, there is only ever leverage.
That Anthropic guy strings a lot of words together and says very very little.
Maybe next time he should let his company's software craft a reply, and simply read that.
Was that the McDonald's CEO, or the stunt double for Fred Rogers?
Two dweebs. Hard to choose.
McDonalds CEO was a much worse deal. A launch of a major new burger is a huge deal, and effects both the company and the 40,000 franchise owners it has. They spent millions testing the Big Arch in markets and millions more doing all the things that are required to bring it to restaurants.
He is now being mocked incessantly on social media. People are saying that the little nibble is because he knows what's in there, or that it's not real meat, or that it's made from humans.
No one in marketing could fail to understand how bad it was. But McDonald's chose to push the launch video out to the world. So why did they release it. My guess is this guy is a hard ass and people are afraid to tell him the truth. That's a very dangerous culture.
"MadisonMan said...
People are talking about a new product. That's a win."
Nope. They are making fun of a new product. That's not a win. Will people try it? Sure, it's McDonalds. But success is in the margins. This will cost them.
I heard that sales of the Arch sandwich are way up. He may be mocked, but there ain't no such thing as bad publicity.
i had dinner last night at Gus and Tony's (Thursday is Burger night ($4.50 for regular ($5 for "smash burger")..
I was there with a former VP from the company i used to work with.
It was REALLY HARD to talk to an exec* and eat at the same time.
exec* i don't work there anymore, so i could have made a huge pig of myself, but still it was hard to eat and talk at the same time
Filed under Deep State whom you people love to death:
"The Trump administration is attempting to disqualify or blacklist the AI company Anthropic primarily because the company refused to allow the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems. "
McDonald's guy leaned into his nerdy personality in a follow-up video. That's just who he is.
Did Trump endorsement Arch yet?
He showed the hamburger after he took the bite. They burned the shit out of that meat.
The buns are of course pure poison and the whole thing would be better off with a lot less garbage on the meat.
I didn't really think he looked that bad taking a bite. I was expecting worse based on the comments.
Why didnt he do a test bite
I'm pretty sure the CEOs of the burger factories don't actually choose to eat their own product.
And the memo? I didn't get the memo...but all these AI people can go DIAF they are a driver of the enshitification of everything.
"Tofu King said...
I heard that sales of the Arch sandwich are way up. He may be mocked, but there ain't no such thing as bad publicity."
It's only been out 2 days, so up is the only way it can go. And ask Bud Light about the "no such thing as bad publicity" theory.
As overcooked as that meat was I don't know how anyone could be enthusiastic about eating it.
This is a hugely important subject.
The public interest cannot allow AI systems autonomy to select targets and execute weapon systems, without human intervention. Many are not entirely comfortable with the logic and indeed language being applied by the Trump administration in recent days. The administration may well control the most lethal weapon systems the world has yet seen -- but it remains unclear whether due process has been followed at all times.
AI certainly needs guard-rails to ensure rational, democratic human control. However, the demonstrated failure of the US Congress to enforce the guard-rail of the US Constitution over the current administration, suggests that more need to take stands like Anthropic.
Few would argue that the Trump Administration is sufficiently intellectually strong to argue these points persuasively.
my thinking was unrefined > this was taken out of context
This actually illustrates one of my pet peeves about burgers these days. Notice how he had to squish it down to find a place to “attack” it. Burgers are made nearly as tall as they are wide, to make them look bigger without actually adding much to them. You need a dislocatable jaw, like a python, to take a normal bite out of them without squashing them first.
The first guy sounded like someone who was asked a question where the wrong answer would get him squashed like a bug and he was probing for clues as to what the right answer might be before committing himself to a response.
I will not be buying any of that "product."
I've seen a lot of CEOs speak to an audience of their employees and it's amazing what horrible public speakers most of them are.
"The public interest cannot allow AI systems autonomy to select targets and execute weapon systems, without human intervention."
But in re weapon systems, there is always your (human) opponent to consider. The other guy very likely will allow that, and if you require a human in the loop, they will have a much faster system than you.
Sydney Sweeney taking a bite of the Arc Burger..."OMG, look how big it is...all juicy and full of flavor....I can't get it all into my mouth it is so YUGE!" .... A marketing opportunity lost.
Did the CEO craze start in the 1980s with Lee Iacocca? Attributing shaman wisdom to these guys was always fucking stupid. Jack Welch, Carlie.
None of these people built a company.
I understand the fascination with guys like Steve Jobs and Elon. They built the companies they ran.
But these other CEOs are a dime a dozen. They are overpaid mediocrities.
If I were a shareholder I'd be upset at both CEO's. But McDonalds will survive a poor roll out of a single product.
All new Wave-Of-The-Future products go through a phase when people throw money at several competing sources. Eventually many of these efforts fail and the last ones standing dominate. The AI world has yet to shake out the winners and losers. By taking a shot at the administration and potentially cutting themselves out of the Huuuuuge Department of War contracts the Anthropic CEO is helping with that sorting. And not in a good way.
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