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Anthropic donates additional $20M to Public First Action, totaling $40M for AI policy education
Anthropic is contributing an additional $20 million to Public First Action, a non-partisan organization focused on AI public education and policy advocacy, bringing total support to $40 million. The announcement cites accelerating AI capabilities—including Claude Mythos Preview's discovery of thousands of high-severity software vulnerabilities—as justification for urgent policy action. Anthropic uses the occasion to reiterate its Advanced AI Framework, calling for government verification of safety claims, civil enforcement mechanisms, and the ability to slow or block deployment of catastrophically risky models. The donation also signals Anthropic's continued push for export controls on advanced chips and measures against illicit model access.
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Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Public First Action for AI Policy Advocacy
Anthropic is contributing $20 million to Public First Action, a new bipartisan 501(c)(4) organization focused on AI governance and public education. The donation is intended to support policies including AI model transparency requirements, a federal AI governance framework, export controls on AI chips, and targeted regulation of high-risk AI applications such as bioweapons and cyberattacks. Anthropic frames the move as consistent with its safety mission, noting that effective AI governance would increase scrutiny of frontier AI companies including itself. The organization is led by both Republican and Democratic strategists and will work across party lines.
Anthropic launches initiative to fund third-party AI safety evaluations
Anthropic announced a funded initiative to source third-party evaluations measuring advanced AI capabilities and safety risks, with priority areas including cybersecurity, CBRN threats, model autonomy, national security risks, social manipulation, and misalignment. The initiative is tied to Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy and AI Safety Level (ASL) framework, aiming to address a gap between demand and supply of high-quality safety-relevant evals. Proposals are solicited via an application form, with Anthropic framing the effort as benefiting the broader AI safety ecosystem rather than just internal use.
Anthropic commits $200M to Economic Futures Research Fund for AI labor-market impact studies
Anthropic is launching a $200 million external research fund focused on studying interventions to prepare society for AI-driven economic disruption, building on its earlier Economic Futures program. The fund will prioritize five areas: workplace-level AI impact on workers, equipping people for AI-driven transitions, modernizing income support, building worker stakes in AI growth, and generating evidence on public investments. Grants will primarily range from $1M to $30M, targeting universities, research institutes, and nonprofits capable of running large-scale RCTs or ambitious pilots. The initiative reflects Anthropic's view that empirical evidence on effective interventions is urgently needed before AI-driven labor displacement accelerates.
Anthropic commits $10 million CAD to Canadian AI research institutions
Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to Canadian research institutions including Amii, Mila, the Vector Institute, CHEO, CAMH, Université Laval, University of Toronto, and University of Saskatchewan, funding work in responsible AI, health, reinforcement learning, and low-resource languages. Partnerships include Claude API credits for research teams and, via the Anthropic for Startups program, at least $5,000 USD in credits to hundreds of Canadian startups affiliated with the three regional AI institutes. Anthropic also published a Canadian country brief from its Economic Index, showing Canada ranks eighth globally in Claude.ai use with per-capita adoption more than four times what population size would predict. The announcement combines philanthropic research investment with strategic ecosystem-building in a country with deep historical ties to foundational AI research.
Anthropic Responds to White House AI Action Plan, Calls for Transparency Standards and Export Controls
Anthropic published a policy response to the White House's 'Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan,' endorsing its focus on AI infrastructure, federal adoption, and safety research while urging additional steps on export controls and mandatory AI development transparency standards. The company highlighted alignment between the plan and its prior OSTP submissions, and noted its proactive activation of ASL-3 protections with Claude Opus 4 as evidence that safety and innovation are compatible. Anthropic called for a single national standard for frontier model transparency rather than a state-by-state patchwork, and encouraged continued investment in NIST's CAISI for evaluating frontier models on national security risks including CBRN capabilities.
Anthropic pledges $2M to Carnegie Mellon for AI energy and cybersecurity programs
Anthropic announced a $2 million contribution to Carnegie Mellon University, split equally between the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation (AI-powered grid management research) and the picoCTF cybersecurity education program. The announcement was made by CEO Dario Amodei at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit alongside President Trump and other government and industry leaders. The move signals Anthropic's positioning on U.S. AI infrastructure policy, framing energy availability as central to maintaining American leadership in frontier AI development.
Anthropic raises $580M Series B to advance AI safety and interpretability research (2022)
Anthropic raised $580 million in a Series B round in April 2022, led by Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, to fund large-scale infrastructure for AI safety research. The company, then ~40 people, outlined work on interpretability, steerability, and robustness of large language models. The round is historically notable both for Anthropic's early safety-focused mission and for the involvement of Sam Bankman-Fried, who was later convicted of fraud in the FTX collapse.
Anthropic awarded $200M DOD agreement to prototype frontier AI for national security
The U.S. Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has awarded Anthropic a two-year, $200M ceiling prototype other transaction agreement to develop frontier AI capabilities for national security applications. Work will include fine-tuning models on DOD data, adversarial AI risk mitigation, and responsible AI adoption across the defense enterprise. Anthropic will leverage its Claude Gov models and existing partnerships with Palantir and AWS-hosted infrastructure. This is a significant expansion of Anthropic's federal footprint, building on prior deployments with defense and intelligence agencies.