Trump Adviser Accuses Anthropic of 'Corporate Schizophrenia' Amid Opus 5.5 Release and Slowdown Rhetoric

David Sacks, co-chair of President Trump's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has criticized Anthropic for what he characterizes as fundamentally contradictory positioning ahead of its planned October 2026 initial public offering, valued near $2 trillion. Sacks attacked the company for publishing calls to slow frontier AI development while simultaneously releasing new frontier models and expanding research capabilities—a pattern he said requires "a psychiatrist, not a banker."