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ANTHROPIC RESTRICTS $20M DONATION FROM ELECTION USE

Anthropic donated $20 million to Public First Action with explicit restrictions preventing the funds from influencing federal elections. The AI safety company says the money is earmarked for public education on AI policy.

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Veronica Irwin / Transformer: Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be “used to influence federa…

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Bloomberg: Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days afte…

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Politico: Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model My…

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The US Treasury Department’s technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos AI model so it can begi…

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Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition…

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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde praised Anthropic PBC for limiting the release of its latest artificia…

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Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deat…

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even…

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Bloomberg: Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treas…

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The ability of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to uncover cyber vulnerabilities has the government and institutions worried,…

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing dev…

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In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explained why the company…

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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-po…

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Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop lay…

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OpenAI says its safeguards “sufficiently reduce cyber risk” for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused…

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI rolls out cybersecurity-focused model GPT-5.4-Cyber to some participants of its Trusted…

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code; empl…

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Anthropic: Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on “weak-to-strong supervision”, where a w…

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A Canadian cabinet minister praised Anthropic PBC’s decision to introduce its Mythos model to select companies and allow…

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The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consump…

Bloomberg Tech+1d 7h

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed Anthropic PBC’s Mythos as a revolutionary step that will keep America ahead o…

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One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's recent round required assuming an IPO va…

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Mythos, a new artificial intelligence model that Anthropic PBC has teased as too dangerous to release, looked at first l…