Meme takes off over Atlantic report: 'The stuffed bear told me to lay off 30% of staff'
thedealdirector · x · 2026-10-01
Riffing on The Atlantic's report on the Anthropic-OpenAI feud, this poster mocks the revealed detail that Daniela Amodei and Karnofsky used stuffed animals with assigned personas as a management advisory council. The joke: 'The stuffed bear told me to lay off 30% of our staff in preparation for Anthropic going public' — showing how the story is becoming AI-industry meme fodder.
Related event: Anthropic Co-founder Uses Stuffed Animals as Advisory Board(2 posts)→
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