WSJ reporter Amrith Ramkumar shares the Tom Brown profile (‘convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke’)
Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumarX
Why it matters
Author’s own post of the WSJ profile (with Keach Hagey), ~56k views; gives the story’s framing.
Summary
Posted Oct 9, 2026 (17:05 UTC): “Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke: 6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage. Profile w/ @keachhagey”. Links the WSJ article. Checked via api.fxtwitter.com on Oct 11: ~56k views.
Archived text
Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:
6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.
Profile w/ @keachhagey:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-brown-athropic-669005ad?st=pBjigo&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (including SpaceXAI / xAI); Tom Brown, Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic