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title: "Anthropic"
description: "AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems."
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# Anthropic
> AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

## Articles

### [Offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of the U.S. government](https://yomu.fyi/post/offering-expanded-claude-access-across-all-three-branches-of-the-u-s-g.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 15, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic is offering Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1, removing cost barriers to AI adoption. The offer builds on Claude’s addition to the GSA schedule and supports FedRAMP High workloads for sensitive unclassified data. Government partners already using Claude include the Department of Defense, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with 10,000 daily users, and the District of Columbia Department of Health. The package includes frontier models with continuous updates and technical support for one year, with coordination underway with GSA for implementation. This expanded access aims to accelerate AI adoption across the federal government for scientific research, national security, and constituent services.


### [An update on independent evaluators](https://yomu.fyi/post/an-update-on-independent-evaluators.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 15, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has begun providing employee-like access to METR, a nonprofit evaluator of frontier AI models, as part of its commitment to independent third-party assessment. The company signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence and aims to close the gap between what evaluators and the company itself understand about its systems. To evaluate frontier models, evaluators require expertise in capabilities assessment, independence, deep access to training and safeguards, and freedom to publish results. Anthropic defined three tiers of access: the first tier allows publication only with company approval, the second tier permits publication without approval but with possible redactions, and the third tier grants employee-like access with similar publication rights as the second. METR is currently at the third tier, while SecureBio operates at the first tier, and collaborations with Accenture and Faculty are in early stages.


### [Preparing for the 2026 US midterms](https://yomu.fyi/post/preparing-for-the-2026-us-midterms.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 14, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic detailed strengthened election safeguards for Claude ahead of the 2026 US midterms, based on a week-long analysis of 250,000 conversations to understand usage patterns and prevent misuse. About 5.75% of US Claude.ai conversations touch on politics, 0.51% on elections, and 0.01% ask for voting recommendations, with violations at 0.002%; election-specific queries are expected to increase closer to Election Day. New features include TurboVote banners, state-specific voting information from Democracy Works, and live election-night results. Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 scored 99% on political evenhandedness, but independent reviews found uneven hedging and unsolicited caveats in some responses. Anthropic partnered with ISD and McCain Institute to pressure-test defenses, added classifiers for multi-step misuse, and banned accounts used to produce content favoring adversarial narratives.


### [Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-opens-singapore-office-and-signs-mou-with-the-government-of.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 14, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic opened a new office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed an MOU with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information on AI safety, security, and model evaluation. The MOU, signed by co-founder Ben Mann and Permanent Secretary Kai Fong Chng, also covers research on AI adoption and responsible use across public and private sectors. Claude already powers services used by millions daily through organizations like GovTech, DBS, Grab, and Sea; Grab’s BriX assistant saves 40,000 hours quarterly. Singapore ranks second globally in Claude.ai usage relative to population, at nearly six times expected levels, and over 1,500 GovTech engineers use Claude Code. The office is hiring and plans technical exchanges, AI skills strengthening, and support for small and medium businesses.


### [Redesigning source control at Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/post/redesigning-source-control-at-anthropic.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 13, 2026
- Type: Explainer

At Anthropic, Claude’s ability to iterate on code at high speed has caused git-based source control to become the bottleneck in their development workflow. To handle the growth from 2,500 to over 30,000 daily code merges, the team built Scion, an in-house version control system, fully migrating their monorepo from git in five months. Scion diverges from git by assuming clients are always online, shifting computation to the server, and using horizontally scalable data structures without any fully materialized copy of the repository. The system stores changes as entries in a write-ahead log, supports sparse and virtualized checkouts, and enables cheap, lock-free commits that scale with change size rather than repository size. Anthropic shares Scion’s design principles to help the broader ecosystem prepare for AI-driven scaling challenges, noting that similar pressure points will emerge for other organizations as AI coding tools become more common.


### [Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission](https://yomu.fyi/post/introducing-the-anthropic-cyber-mission.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 8, 2026
- Type: Announcement

State-sponsored adversaries have gained footholds in critical infrastructure such as power grids, water systems, and transportation networks, while open-source software faces increasing vulnerability exploits. To support defenders, Anthropic launches the Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment that includes the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program and OSS Scanner. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program provides frontier Claude models, on-site engineers, and threat research to trusted providers like Accenture, CrowdStrike, and Rockwell Automation to secure operational technology. OSS Scanner offers open-source projects free regular security scans from Anthropic’s strongest models, and the expanded Cyber Verification Program gives more defenders access to advanced cyber capabilities. The mission aims to reduce cyber risk over years through collaboration, but challenges remain as verifying and fixing vulnerabilities is slow and depends on people.


### [2026 Usage Policy update](https://yomu.fyi/post/2026-usage-policy-update.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 8, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has published an updated Usage Policy effective November 12, 2026, reflecting Claude’s evolving capabilities and observed misuse patterns in influence operations, weapons development, and surveillance. The update consolidates rules against deceptive activity into a new section titled Do Not Engage in Deceptive Campaigns or Artificial Activity. The elections section is refocused to specifically disallow deceiving voters or disrupting elections, removing a blanket prohibition on personalized targeting that hindered legitimate civic work. Weapons prohibitions now explicitly include software and components for weapons, as well as arming autonomous vehicles, and the surveillance section more precisely prohibits tracking without consent and using Claude for law enforcement decisions. The policy also clarifies high-risk use case requirements, adds controls for autonomous physical actions requiring a qualified operator and a safe state, and prohibits sustained abusive behavior toward models.


### [Expanding the Cyber Verification Program](https://yomu.fyi/post/expanding-the-cyber-verification-program.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 6, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program (CVP) to make advanced AI models with reduced safeguards available to qualifying security professionals. The program now offers three access tiers—Defense Access, Red Team Access, and Specialized Access—each with different verification requirements and security controls. Defense Access allows defensive work like incident response and vulnerability analysis, while Red Team Access adds authorized penetration testing. Specialized Access, with the fewest cyber blocks, is reserved for organizations testing high-risk safety systems and is reviewed in collaboration with the US government. Evaluations on CyScenarioBench showed that the Red Team Access tier did not block any tasks and achieved a 68% success rate, equivalent to no safeguards, while the Defense Access tier blocked 46 of 50 tasks.


### [Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-invests-100-million-to-train-10-000-engineers-and-tackle-the.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 2, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy with a $100 million commitment to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. The program addresses the talent gap in enterprise AI implementation, where skilled engineers are scarce. The Frontier Deployed Engineer Residency follows a medical model: engineers learn from practitioners, work on simulated enterprise deployments covering use case selection, security review, and handover, and are assessed on a graded practical before earning credentials. First cohorts include engineers from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, and Novo Nordisk, with cohorts running in San Francisco, New York, and London. The program starts with a multi-day in-person session with Anthropic engineers and licensed instructors and continues with a 12-week residency where engineers lead a real Claude use case at their organization, supported by Anthropic engineers, with the first FDE badges expected in early 2027.


### [Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience](https://yomu.fyi/post/barclays-scales-claude-to-upgrade-operations-and-improve-client-experi.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Barclays, a British universal bank, is expanding its collaboration with Anthropic to integrate Claude across global operations, aiming to accelerate software development, modernize legacy systems, and improve efficiency. By end of 2026, Barclays expects Claude Code adoption to reach 50% of its developer population, rising to a majority of software engineers in 2027. A live example is the Colleague Knowledge Assistant, powered by Claude via a retrieval-augmented generation architecture since 2025, adopted by over 16,000 employees and handling over one million searches. In Global Markets, Claude models classify, enrich, and route approximately 120,000 client emails daily, reducing manual handling and helping staff prioritize requests. Barclays applies robust governance, security controls, and human oversight to ensure responsible AI deployment.


### [Claude discovers a novel enzyme system](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-discovers-a-novel-enzyme-system.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic launched a new life sciences research group to use AI agents for fundamental biology discovery. In one of their first programs, Claude agents autonomously analyzed over 200,000 reverse transcriptase sequences from a DNA database. After 21 hours and 210 million tokens, one agent spotted a repeating DNA pattern next to a reverse transcriptase gene, which it identified as a CRISPR-like system. The system, called ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases), consists of the RT, an accessory protein, and an array of non-coding DNA repeats that are expressed as distinct small RNAs. Its function remains unknown, but the pattern of repeats is only found together in other programmable DNA-cutting systems, suggesting ART may be a new tool for biotechnology.


### [Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation](https://yomu.fyi/post/partnering-with-accenture-on-embedded-evaluation.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic is partnering with Accenture’s specialist AI business, Faculty, on independent evaluation of frontier AI, advancing a commitment to embed evaluators within Anthropic. The work will cover model evaluation and red-teaming, alignment assessments, and testing safeguards, informed by Accenture’s experience deploying AI across industries. Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least $1 billion in building capacity over five years, although operating details, access standards, reporting practices, and funding models remain unsettled. Embedded evaluators would work inside AI companies with employee-comparable access to observe training, follow development and deployment decisions, speak with staff, verify safety commitments, identify blind spots, and report incidents; Anthropic says its partnership is non-exclusive and that model safety remains its responsibility.


### [Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program](https://yomu.fyi/post/introducing-the-life-sciences-verification-program.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 17, 2026
- Type: Announcement

The Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP) opens beta access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models for verified life science teams whose work may be blocked by generally available Fable models. Applicants undergo review of research credentials, security standards, and ethical oversight, then may receive annual Standard Use grants or six-month, project-specific High-risk Use grants. Standard Use employs more permissive biology classifiers across research, clinical, manufacturing, and other workflows, while High-risk Use removes life-science safeguards for specifically vetted projects; cyber safeguards remain. The program shifts enforcement from request-level blocking to offline monitoring of behavioral patterns, requiring 30-day retention of flagged-activity data, compartmentalized from training and life sciences research teams. Access is available through API, Claude Science, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Enterprise or Team plans, but not individual plans, third-party platforms, or BAA-enabled organizations during beta.


### [Higher education advisory board and AI Fluency courses](https://yomu.fyi/post/higher-education-advisory-board-and-ai-fluency-courses.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces two initiatives for higher education: an advisory board to guide Claude’s development for teaching, learning, and research, and three AI Fluency courses co-created with educators. The board, chaired by Rick Levin, includes academic leaders whose expertise spans university leadership, educational technology, learning science, and postsecondary policy, with a stated aim of strengthening learning and critical thinking while upholding academic integrity and student privacy. The courses address educators, students, and institutions: they cover classroom materials and assessments, responsible AI collaboration, critical thinking, personal commitments, instruction, assessment, and curriculum planning. Co-developed with Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller, all three are available under a Creative Commons license so institutions can adapt them. The announcement positions the board as strategic guidance and the courses as practical support for universities navigating AI integration.


### [National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council](https://yomu.fyi/post/national-security-and-public-sector-advisory-council.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announced the formation of its National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, a bipartisan group of former officials and public policy practitioners supporting work with the U.S. government and closely allied democracies. The council includes former senators and leaders from Defense, intelligence, Energy, Justice, and congressional national security offices, and will help identify applications in cybersecurity, intelligence analysis, and scientific research. It will also deepen public-private partnerships and support standards for responsible national security applications. Anthropic describes related efforts including Claude Gov models, a $200 million Department of Defense partnership, Claude access for 10,000 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, nuclear safeguards work, $1 access for all three government branches, and voluntary testing of biological, cyber, and AI R&D capabilities.


### [Education Report: How educators use Claude](https://yomu.fyi/post/education-report-how-educators-use-claude.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Explainer

An analysis of educator AI adoption in higher education examines how faculty use Claude across teaching, research, and administration. The researchers analyzed approximately 74,000 anonymized conversations from Claude.ai Free and Pro accounts associated with higher education email addresses during May and June, automatically filtering educator-specific tasks and matching them to O\*NET categories; they also drew on survey and qualitative research with 22 Northeastern faculty. Curriculum development was the leading use, appearing in 57% of analyzed conversations, followed by academic research at 13% and student-performance assessment at 7%. Faculty also used Claude Artifacts to build interactive games, quizzes, simulations, data visualizations, scheduling tools, and budget planners, shifting from conversational assistance toward deployable educational resources. The analysis found more augmentation for lesson design, advising, and grant writing, while routine administrative work was more automation-heavy; grading was automated in 48.9% of relevant cases despite faculty rating it AI’s least effective application.


### [Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-raises-13b-series-f-at-183b-valuation.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ and co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money. The financing follows rapid expansion since Claude launched in March 2023: run-rate revenue rose from approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025 to more than $5 billion by August, while Anthropic reported over 300,000 business customers and nearly sevenfold growth in large accounts over the past year. Claude Code, fully launched in May 2025, had already surpassed $500 million in run-rate revenue, with usage increasing more than 10x in three months. Anthropic says it will use the investment to expand enterprise capacity, deepen safety research, and support international expansion while building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.


### [Chris Ciauri named Managing Director of International](https://yomu.fyi/post/chris-ciauri-named-managing-director-of-international.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International amid expanded global operations, new offices, and increasing enterprise demand for Claude. Ciauri brings more than 25 years of experience scaling enterprise technology businesses globally, including roles as CEO of Unily, president of EMEA at Google Cloud, and EVP and GM of EMEA at Salesforce, where he helped grow revenue from under $200 million to over $3 billion. He joins Paul Smith’s international leadership group with Guillaume Princen, Hidetoshi Tojo, and Kate Jensen, while Anthropic adds more than 100 EMEA roles, opens its first Asia office in Tokyo, and plans further European locations. Anthropic says this momentum reflects technical talent, safety, and frontier research, including alignment and interpretability work. The company reports run-rate revenue above $5 billion in August 2025, more than 300,000 business customers, and customer examples spanning productivity, documentation, service quality, fraud reduction, and software development.


### [Deloitte brings Claude to 470,000 people](https://yomu.fyi/post/deloitte-brings-claude-to-470-000-people.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic and Deloitte announced an expanded alliance that will make Claude available to more than 470,000 Deloitte people across its global network and create industry-specific solutions powered by the model. Deloitte will establish a Claude Center of Excellence, with trained specialists developing implementation frameworks, sharing deployment practices, and providing ongoing technical support to move AI pilots into production at scale. The organizations are also creating a certification program for 15,000 professionals, while combining Claude’s safety-first design with Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI framework to build compliance-oriented tools for regulated industries including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and public services. The announcement describes the deployment as Anthropic’s largest enterprise AI deployment to date, with Claude intended for uses ranging from coding and software development to customer engagement and industry-specific advisory.


### [Rahul Patil joins as Chief Technology Officer](https://yomu.fyi/post/rahul-patil-joins-as-chief-technology-officer.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 10, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announced that Rahul Patil has joined as its Chief Technology Officer, overseeing engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security as Claude scales to meet growing enterprise demand worldwide. Patil brings more than 20 years of experience building and maintaining industry-leading infrastructure, most recently as CTO of Stripe, where he guided technology supporting millions of businesses processing more than trillion dollars annually. Earlier roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure developed his expertise in reliable, scalable mission-critical systems, while co-founder Sam McCandlish moves from CTO to Chief Architect to focus on large-scale model training, pretraining, research productivity, and RL infrastructure. The announcement frames Patil’s appointment as a commitment to world-class infrastructure and reliability at scale for developers building with Claude.


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