Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.
THE SO WHAT
The Axios line about people joining for the paycheck, not the mission, exposes the core constraint in AI: elite talent is mobile even at top-of-market comp. If your strategy assumes long-term retention of a few key researchers or engineers, you need redundancy, documentation, and succession plans now—not after the next offer lands.
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