A source said Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, has grown worried that new hires are joining for the money rather than the mission. “Breaking: people work for money,” ran one widely shared reply. Anthropic reportedly pays more than any lab in AI, even OpenAI. So fretting that people come for the pay is a strange complaint from the firm writing the biggest cheques. When every lab can pay millions, pay stops telling people apart.