{
  "id": 9817296,
  "title": "Anthropic investor Lonsdale says AI firms stoking fear to sway policy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/anthropic-investor-lonsdale-says-ai-firms-stoking-fear-to-sway-policy-9817296",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-25T18:52:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNA - Business",
    "slug": "cna-business",
    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/anthropic-investor-lonsdale-says-ai-firms-stoking-fear-sway-policy-6411856"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic and co-founder of Palantir, criticized leading AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI for warning of existential risks from AI. He argued that these efforts amounted to a dangerous attempt to shape public policy and entrench market power for a small number of companies. Lonsdale emphasized the importance of balancing safety concerns with the risk of creating an oligopoly with excessive influence over AI policy.",
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        "title": "Anthropic investor Lonsdale says AI firms stoking fear to sway policy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/anthropic-investor-lonsdale-says-ai-firms-stoking-fear-to-sway-policy",
        "published": "2026-09-25T18:52:25.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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