The designation prevents any other company who works with defense from using them also.
Dude. Less than a week. It's not exactly ancient history.
This goofball runs an IA company that our DOD is using? I’d fire the DOD people as well.
How the H-1B Visa System Scams American Workers
A Case Study: Anthropic PBC — DOL Case No. I-200-25254-301868
Certified October 2025 — United States Department of Labor
The Legal Fiction
The H-1B visa program was created to allow American companies to hire foreign workers only when no qualified American can be found. Before hiring a foreign national, employers must file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) with the Department of Labor certifying they made good faith efforts to hire Americans first and that the foreign worker will be paid prevailing wages so as not to undercut the American labor market.
The Documented Reality
In October 2025, Anthropic PBC — the San Francisco artificial intelligence company — filed LCA case number I-200-25254-301868 with the Department of Labor. The filing certified that Anthropic could not find a qualified American for a software developer position paying between $187,574 and $320,000 per year.
This certification was signed under penalty of perjury by Anthropic’s Global Mobility department — Elaine Go, Virginia Blanton, and Roy Bharti — and filed by immigration law firm Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy of San Francisco, one of the largest H-1B filing firms in the country.
At the time of this filing, hundreds of thousands of qualified American software developers were unemployed or underemployed. Experienced American technology workers were offering to work for a fraction of $187,574. American workers with decades of expertise were submitting thousands of resumes and receiving no callbacks.
The Money Laundering Structure
The listed salary of up to $320,000 satisfies the legal prevailing wage requirement on paper. In practice, the actual worker receives significantly less. The difference is captured by the intermediary pipeline: immigration law firms like Fragomen, staffing companies, and Global Mobility departments whose entire business model depends on processing these filings. The legal wage protection designed to protect American workers is systematically converted into revenue for intermediaries while the actual worker earns a fraction of the certified amount.
The Sham Recruitment
American workers who apply for these positions report a consistent pattern: job listings with artificially specific requirements, interviews conducted as legal formalities rather than genuine recruitment, and callbacks designed solely to document that Americans were considered and rejected. One American database analyst with thirty years of experience submitted three thousand resumes and received one phone call — from a recruiter who called not to hire him but to satisfy the legal documentation requirement before hiring a foreign national.
The Certification Fraud
Case I-200-25254-301868 was certified by the Department of Labor. The agency that is supposed to protect American workers certified Anthropic’s claim that no qualified American could be found for a $187,574 to $320,000 software development position. This certification was made without meaningful investigation. The Department of Labor processes tens of thousands of such applications annually with minimal scrutiny, functioning as a rubber stamp for a system it was designed to regulate.
This is not an isolated case. It is the system working exactly as the corporations that lobbied for it intended.
FOIA Request Reference: Case No. I-200-25254-301868
Employer: Anthropic PBC — 548 Market Street PMB 90375, San Francisco CA 94104
Filing Attorney: Eduardo Garcia, Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy LLP, 555 Montgomery Street 4th Floor, San Francisco CA 94111
Signed under penalty of perjury by: Elaine Go / Virginia Blanton / Roy Bharti, Global Mobility Department, Anthropic PBC
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration — h1bgrader.com
He looks like JJ Abrams which automatically makes him a douchebag.
All of the big-name AI companies have insatiable desires for piles of money. Anthropic was at the top of the heap after they released the latest version of Claude configured to be an aide to programmers and it caused a huge sell off of enterprise software corporation stocks in early February. They also had raised an additional $30 billion in their latest funding round. This emboldened CEO Dario Amodei. He must now be coming under pressure ahead of Anthropic’s expected IPO sometime in 2026. Losing government contracts and being labeled as a “supply-chain security risk” by the Pentagon is likely to delay the IPO and lower its perceived value.