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OpenAI and Anthropic’s rivalry on display as CEOs don't hold hands at India AI summit

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Source: CNBC TechnologyFebruary 19, 2026

Summary

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined to hold hands during a group photo at India's AI Impact Summit, highlighting growing tension between the competing companies. Both firms are battling for market dominance with their AI models, and recently exchanged criticism over advertising plans, with Anthropic even running Super Bowl commercials mocking OpenAI's advertisement strategy.

Classification

Attack SophisticationTrivial

Affected Vendors

OpenAIAnthropicGoogle

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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/openai-sam-altman-anthropic-dario-amodei-india-ai-summit.html

First tracked: February 19, 2026 at 07:00 AM

Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%