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Our compliance framework for California's SB 53
California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53), taking effect January 1, requires frontier AI developers to publish frameworks explaining how they assess and manage catastrophic risks. Anthropic’s public Frontier Compliance Framework (FCF) covers cyber offense; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats; AI sabotage; loss of control; model-weight protection; and safety-incident response. It describes a tiered system for evaluating model capabilities across those risk categories and the mitigations used, while building on the company’s Responsible Scaling Policy and model system cards. Anthropic says the FCF will serve as its compliance framework for SB 53 and other regulatory requirements, while the RSP remains a voluntary policy that may go beyond current rules. The company also argues for a federal standard requiring public secure-development frameworks, deployment system cards, whistleblower protections, flexible minimum standards, and coverage limited to established frontier developers.
Introducing Labs
Anthropic is expanding Labs, a team dedicated to incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities. The announcement describes a product-building model that combines edge experimentation, testing unpolished versions with early users, and scaling successful ideas into dependable customer products; it cites Claude Code, MCP, Skills, Claude in Chrome, and Cowork as examples. Mike Krieger is joining Labs to build alongside Ben Mann, while Ami Vora will lead Product in partnership with CTO Rahul Patil to scale Claude experiences. Anthropic says the structure is intended to support both experimental discovery and responsible scaling for enterprise customers and a growing user base, and it is hiring builders focused on emerging technology.
Irina Ghose named Managing Director of India
Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose as Managing Director of India as it prepares to open its first office in the country. Ghose brings more than three decades of experience scaling technology businesses and most recently led Microsoft India, where she drove enterprise AI adoption across banking and financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. In her new role, she will help grow teams, engage policymakers and academic institutions, strengthen developer engagement, and build partnerships with enterprises and organizations addressing local challenges, with an emphasis on local insight, trust, safety, and long-term impact. India is Claude.ai’s second-largest market globally, and Anthropic says nearly half of usage there is concentrated in computer and mathematical tasks, according to its fourth Economic Index.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar appointed to Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar as a new member, adding experience in law, governance, international affairs, and technology’s effects on public institutions. Cuéllar is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of California, former leader of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, current President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and chair of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation; he plans to leave Carnegie in July 2026 for Stanford roles. The independent Trust selects members of Anthropic’s Board of Directors and advises Anthropic’s Board and leadership on maximizing advanced AI’s benefits and mitigating its risks, with no Trustee holding a financial stake in Anthropic. Kanika Bahl and Zachary Robinson, who served since the Trust’s founding, concluded their terms.
Anthropic partners with the UK Government on GOV.UK
Anthropic has been selected by the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to help build and pilot a dedicated AI-powered assistant for GOV.UK. The assistant will initially support people entering or re-entering the workforce by helping them find work, access training, understand available support and resources, and route them to relevant services. Powered by Claude, the agentic system is designed to provide individually tailored guidance, maintain context across interactions, and let users control what data is remembered or opt out; personal information will be handled under UK data protection law. Using DSIT’s “Scan, Pilot, Scale” framework, the partners will test and iterate the assistant before wider rollout, building government expertise to maintain it independently.
ServiceNow chooses Claude
ServiceNow has selected Claude as the default model for ServiceNow Build Agent and as a preferred model across the ServiceNow AI Platform. Build Agent uses natural-language prompts to help professional coders and citizen developers create applications, design and test agentic automations, while enterprise controls provide access controls, usage monitoring, visibility, and compliance. ServiceNow is also deploying Claude and Claude Code across its workforce of more than 29,000 employees: a Claude-powered sales coaching tool has cut preparation time by up to 95% in testing, while technical teams use Claude Code for coding, reviews, debugging, and repetitive tasks. The partnership targets a 50% reduction in customer implementation time and includes Claude-powered industry applications for healthcare and life sciences, where claims authorization could move from days to hours.
Apple’s Xcode now supports the Claude Agent SDK
Xcode 26.3 introduces a native integration with the Claude Agent SDK, bringing the same harness that powers Claude Code into Apple’s IDE for longer-running, autonomous coding work. Claude can receive a goal, inspect a project’s full file structure, determine which files to change, modify them, and iterate, while searching Apple’s documentation when it needs framework or API guidance. It can also capture Xcode Previews to visually verify SwiftUI interfaces, identify problems, and refine its implementation, and it supports subagents, background tasks, and plugins. The integration is additionally exposed through the Model Context Protocol, allowing Claude Code users to connect to Xcode and capture Previews from the CLI. Xcode 26.3 is available as a release candidate to Apple Developer Program members, with an App Store release coming soon.
Claude is a space to think
Anthropic says Claude will remain ad-free because advertising could conflict with its role as a helpful assistant for work, deep thinking, and sensitive conversations. It argues that ads could influence responses, introduce commercial motives that are difficult to distinguish from advice, or create engagement incentives misaligned with resolving users’ requests efficiently. The company’s stated business model relies on enterprise contracts and paid subscriptions, with revenue reinvested in Claude, while access efforts include education programs, nonprofit discounts, smaller models, and possible lower-cost or regional pricing. Claude will still support user-directed commerce and third-party tools such as Figma, Asana, and Canva, including potential agentic purchasing and booking; Anthropic says these interactions should be initiated by users rather than advertisers.
Covering electricity price increases
Anthropic says it will cover electricity price increases that consumers face from its data centers as AI infrastructure expands in the United States. Training a single frontier model will soon require gigawatts, while the US AI sector may need at least 50 gigawatts of capacity over the next several years, creating costs through grid upgrades and tighter electricity markets. The company commits to pay 100% of grid interconnection upgrades, bring net-new generation online, cover estimated demand-driven price effects where necessary, and reduce peak demand through curtailment and grid optimization. It also describes jobs, water-efficient cooling, local partnerships, and support for permitting and transmission reforms, while noting that these commitments are an initial effort and that leased capacity requires further work.
Anthropic is donating $20 million to Public First Action
Anthropic frames AI as a source of major benefits in science, technology, medicine, and economic growth, but also as a technology that can be misused or act harmfully outside users’ control. It says rapidly advancing capabilities, from chatbots to agents completing complex tasks, make near-term policy decisions consequential for labor, child protection, national security, and international power. To participate in that debate, Anthropic is contributing $20 million to Public First Action, a bipartisan 501(c)(4) supporting public AI education, safeguards, and U.S. leadership. The organization’s stated priorities include model-transparency safeguards, a federal governance framework without weaker preemption of state laws, AI-chip export controls, and targeted regulation of AI-enabled biological weapons and cyberattacks, while Anthropic says effective governance may bring more scrutiny to companies like itself.
Anthropic raises $30B Series G at $380B valuation
Anthropic announces a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from major investors, valuing the company at $380 billion post-money. It says proceeds will support frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansion as demand for Claude grows among enterprises and developers. Anthropic reports $14 billion in run-rate revenue, more than 500 customers spending over $1 million annually, and eight of the Fortune 10 as customers. Claude Code’s run-rate revenue exceeds $2.5 billion, enterprise use accounts for more than half of its revenue, and an analysis estimated 4% of GitHub public commits. The company also points to Opus 4.6, expanded products including Cowork, and availability across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, with training and inference across Trainium, TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs.
Chris Liddell appointed to Anthropic's board
Anthropic has appointed Chris Liddell to its Board of Directors, adding more than 30 years of senior leadership experience across large, complex organizations. Liddell previously served as chief financial officer of Microsoft, General Motors, and International Paper, was Deputy White House Chief of Staff during President Trump’s first term, and directed the American Technology Council. He currently serves as a director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Council on Foreign Relations, chairs New Zealand’s largest environmental foundation, and has held nonprofit board roles. Daniela Amodei said Anthropic sought his judgment in technology, public service, and governance as AI’s societal impact grows, while Liddell said governance of transformative technologies matters as much as the technologies themselves.
Anthropic and Infosys build AI agents
Anthropic and Infosys announced a collaboration to develop and deliver enterprise AI solutions for telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The work combines Anthropic’s Claude models and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz, an AI-first set of services, solutions, and platforms, with an emphasis on governance and transparency for regulated industries. Using tools including the Claude Agent SDK, the partners plan to help clients build persistent agents for multi-step work such as claims processing, code generation and testing, compliance reviews, network operations, risk assessment, and legacy-system modernization. They also describe applications for product design and simulation, software debugging, and routine enterprise operations through Claude Cowork, while noting that Claude is available on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.
Anthropic acquires Vercept
Anthropic announces its acquisition of Vercept to advance Claude’s ability to operate inside live applications, where computer use supports multi-step work across tools and teams. Vercept’s team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, focused on the perception and interaction problems involved in helping AI systems see and act within software used by people. Vercept will wind down its external product in the coming weeks and join Anthropic. The announcement cites Claude Sonnet 4.6’s progress on OSWorld: Sonnet models rose from under 15% in late 2024 to 72.5% today, with Sonnet 4.6 approaching human-level performance on complex spreadsheets and web forms across browser tabs. The deal follows Anthropic’s recent acquisition of Bun.
Partnering with Mozilla on Firefox security
Anthropic describes a collaboration with Mozilla in which Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 previously unknown Firefox vulnerabilities over two weeks, including 14 that Mozilla classified as high severity. The work began with reproducing historical Firefox CVEs, then shifted to novel bugs in the current codebase, starting with the JavaScript engine and eventually scanning nearly 6,000 C++ files. Anthropic and Mozilla submitted 112 unique reports, while most issues were fixed in Firefox 148; Claude also produced working exploits for two vulnerabilities in a deliberately weakened test environment. The post says Claude is substantially better at finding and fixing vulnerabilities than exploiting them, but warns that this gap may narrow and recommends evidence-rich reports, task verifiers, and coordinated disclosure processes.
$100 million for the Claude Partner Network
Anthropic is launching the Claude Partner Network to help organizations support enterprise adoption of Claude, backed by an initial $100 million investment for 2026. The program funds partner training, sales enablement, market development, co-marketing, and customer-deployment support, while Anthropic plans to increase its partner-facing team fivefold. Partners receive a portal with Academy materials, sales playbooks, and co-marketing documentation, plus potential inclusion in a Services Partner Directory. New support includes dedicated Applied AI engineers, technical architects, localized go-to-market assistance, and the Claude Certified Architect, Foundations exam, with more certifications planned later this year. A Code Modernization starter kit targets legacy-code migration and technical-debt remediation, and membership is free and open to any organization bringing Claude to market.
Anthropic expands Google and Broadcom compute deal
Anthropic announced a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity expected to come online starting in 2027. The company says the expansion will support its frontier Claude models and meet customer demand, with most of the new compute sited in the United States as an expansion of its November 2025 commitment to invest $50 billion in American computing infrastructure. Anthropic reports that run-rate revenue surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025, while the number of business customers spending more than $1 million annually rose from over 500 to more than 1,000 in less than two months. It will continue using AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, and says Claude remains available across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Vas Narasimhan appointed to Board of Directors
Anthropic has appointed Vas Narasimhan to its Board of Directors through the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and CEO of Novartis, and the announcement connects his healthcare and life sciences experience with Anthropic’s view that AI can improve human life. Narasimhan has overseen the development and approval of more than 35 novel medicines in a highly regulated industry, while his earlier work included HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis programs in India, Africa, and South America. His appointment gives Trust-appointed directors a majority of the Board, which includes Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings, and Chris Liddell, and adds a global health and responsible technology perspective to Anthropic’s governance.
Anthropic and Amazon expand compute collaboration
Anthropic and Amazon have signed a new agreement to deepen their partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying Claude. The deal includes Trainium2 capacity coming online in Q2, scaled Trainium3 capacity later this year, and nearly 1GW of combined Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity by the end of 2026. Anthropic will commit more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies, use AWS as its primary training and cloud provider, and make the Claude Platform available within AWS with existing account, controls, billing, governance and compliance arrangements. Amazon is investing $5 billion now, with up to $20 billion more later, building on $8 billion previously invested. The expansion responds to accelerated demand that has strained reliability and performance during peak hours.
An update on our election safeguards
Claude’s election safeguards are designed to provide accurate, balanced political information while preventing misuse around voting and political discourse. The approach combines character training, system prompts, pre-launch evaluations, automated classifiers, threat intelligence, and ongoing monitoring, with election banners directing users to trusted resources such as TurboVote and web search for current information. In reported tests, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6 scored 95% and 96% on political-bias evaluations, handled legitimate and harmful election requests appropriately 100% and 99.8% of the time, and resisted simulated influence operations 94% and 90% of the time, respectively. Web-search triggering for more than 600 US midterm prompts reached 92% for Opus 4.7 and 95% for Sonnet 4.6. The safeguards will continue to be monitored, tested, and adjusted during this election cycle and beyond.
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