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Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Anthropic, while her sister, Daniela Amodei, received $16.4 million, according to the company’s IPO prospectus.

Much of their compensation comes from stock and options awards. Their salaries were $1.4 million.

Amodei’s pay last year puts him above CEOs at Google and Amazon, but behind those at Oracle and Nvidia.

The Amodei siblings and their fellow co-founders pledged in the ⁠IPO filing ​to dedicate 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to charitable causes.

The Claude creator company is preparing for an IPO this fall that could value it at more than $2 trillion, ‌according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.

Anthropic’s board tied some of its payouts to the IPO.

Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao earned $720,250 last year. He was granted options to buy 1.4 ​million shares when he was hired in 2024, and exercised options worth $385,285 in 2025.

S&P 500 CEO average annual compensation rose 21% to $22.8 million last year, and that didn’t include the extraordinary case of Tesla’s Elon Musk and his $158 billion restricted stock plan.

Top executives at AI-focused tech firms earned widely varying amounts in 2025, according to SEC filings. ‌At the high end, Oracle co-CEO Clayton Magouyrk earned $627.5 million, while the lowest was $54,080 paid to Musk as CEO of SpaceX (SPCX.O) before it went public.

SpaceX has also promised super-voting restricted shares to Musk, already the world’s richest person, if the company’s market value grows to $7.5 trillion and the firm puts 1 million people on Mars.

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OpenAI introduced its agentic product Dots, powered by GPT‑6 Astra.

These autonomous AI agents, known as Dots, have their own cloud computers and browser, and can also use connected apps. This means agents will navigate the web and execute tasks within their own cloud infrastructure.

Dots learn from feedback over time, can work towards goals 24/7, connect to over 4,000 apps, and are voice-enabled.
Users give them a name and make them their own.

OpenAI has begun rolling out Dots across its Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise plans at no extra cost.

Users can call Dots by starting a project in ChatGPT on desktop, web, and mobile. They can also message their dot in Slack and Teams, with texting coming soon.

For developers working on an app, Dots scopes improvements and bug fixes, builds and tests them, and brings PRs to review with attached videos showing the changes.

This isn’t the first time OpenAI has experimented with how apps could operate within its familiar chatbot interface. OpenAI seems to be trying to make ChatGPT the place where software can be discovered, launched, and used by suggesting apps within the flow of conversation.

This system could give app makers another way to reach customers outside of Apple and Google’s app stores.