Good morning. Every politician knows there are certain times—on stage before a debate, for instance—that you need to shake hands with your rival. In the cutthroat AI business however, that kind of etiquette is out of style, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei so awkwardly, and pricelessly, demonstrated during a photo-op at the AI Summit in India this week.
It’s not as if fierce rivalries are a new thing in business. Walmart and Amazon have been locked in a duel for global retail supremacy for years. And as Fortune’s Phil Wahba reports, Amazon achieved a major milestone in 2025 by becoming the world’s largest company by revenue and ending Walmart’s 13-year run as the No.1 company in the Fortune 500. I guess it’s a good thing no one asked the CEOs of these two companies to shake hands.
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