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OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Awkwardly Avoid Holding Hands at India AI Summit

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune:

An awkward moment between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at an AI Summit Thursday captured the increasingly icy relations between two rival tech leaders who started off as colleagues.

Onstage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit, Altman and Amodei seemingly refused to touch during a photo op. Modi grabbed Altman’s hand and lifted it for a group photo, but Altman and Amodei, standing side by side, did not clasp hands or make eye contact.

The video for the Altman–Amodei non-touch was deeply cringe, but it was still less awkward than the Tim Cook–Bono finger touch (and both are outshone by Altman’s double-collar polos).

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