Can Anthropic Scale Like OpenAI—and Still Claim the Moral High Ground?

Anthropic is facing growing pressure to compete more aggressively with rivals like OpenAI and Microsoft while preserving the safety-first identity that has defined it since its founding. Surging revenue forecasts and the launch of its Cowork agent suggest a company pushing harder into enterprise markets, even as it continues to emphasize ethical guardrails, cultural discipline and caution around AI deployment. The result is a delicate balancing act between scale, speed and credibility in an...