Anthropic signs MOU with UK Government to explore AI transformation of public services
Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to explore deploying Claude in UK public services, including government information access and digital service delivery. The partnership will also cover AI supply chain security, R&D collaboration, and workforce adaptation, drawing on Anthropic's Economic Index for labor market insights. Anthropic will continue working with the UK AI Security Institute on capability evaluation and safety. The announcement includes several existing government deployments of Claude as illustrative context.
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Anthropic Partners with UK Government to Deploy Claude-Powered AI Assistant on GOV.UK
Anthropic has been selected by the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build and pilot an AI-powered assistant for GOV.UK, initially focused on helping job seekers navigate employment services and training resources. The system is described as agentic, maintaining context across interactions and routing users to appropriate services. The partnership builds on a February 2025 MOU and follows DSIT's 'Scan, Pilot, Scale' phased deployment framework, with Anthropic engineers embedded alongside civil servants at the Government Digital Service. A stated goal is building independent AI and AI safety expertise within the UK government.
Australian Government and Anthropic Sign MOU for AI Safety and Research
Anthropic and the Australian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on AI safety research, aligned with Australia's National AI Plan. The agreement includes collaboration with Australia's AI Safety Institute on model capability evaluations and safety research, mirroring existing arrangements with safety institutes in the US, UK, and Japan. Anthropic is also committing AUD$3 million in Claude API credits to four Australian research institutions focused on genomics, rare disease diagnosis, and computing education, and is exploring data center infrastructure investments in Australia.
Anthropic makes Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet available to US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud
Anthropic has made Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet available via AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud, marking a significant expansion into government deployment. The company has crafted contractual exceptions to its general Usage Policy to permit legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis, including combating human trafficking and identifying covert influence campaigns, while maintaining restrictions on disinformation, weapons design, and malicious cyber operations. The deployment is currently limited to ASL-2 models under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy. Anthropic also notes prior pre-release access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet was provided to the UK AI Safety Institute for pre-deployment testing.
Anthropic Partners with US Department of Energy on Genesis Mission for AI-Driven Scientific Discovery
Anthropic and the US Department of Energy have announced a multi-year partnership under the DOE's Genesis Mission initiative, targeting AI deployment across energy, biological sciences, and scientific productivity domains. The partnership will provide DOE researchers access to Claude and Anthropic engineers who will build purpose-built agents, Model Context Protocol servers, and specialized Claude Skills for scientific workflows. The collaboration has potential reach across all 17 US national laboratories and builds on prior work including a nuclear risk classifier with the National Nuclear Security Administration and Claude deployment at Lawrence Livermore. This represents a significant expansion of Anthropic's US government footprint.
Anthropic and Deloitte Announce Expanded Alliance: Claude Deployed to 470,000 Professionals
Anthropic and Deloitte have announced an expanded enterprise partnership making Claude available to Deloitte's entire global workforce of over 470,000 people, described as Anthropic's largest enterprise AI deployment to date. The collaboration includes establishing a Claude Center of Excellence, co-creating a certification program for 15,000 Deloitte professionals, and jointly building industry-specific AI solutions for regulated sectors including financial services, healthcare, and public services. The solutions will combine Claude's safety design with Deloitte's Trustworthy AI framework to support enterprise compliance and transparency requirements.
Anthropic partners with U.S. National Labs for 1,000 Scientist AI Jam evaluating Claude on scientific tasks
Anthropic is participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam, bringing together scientists across multiple National Laboratories to evaluate frontier AI models on scientific research and national security applications. Claude 3.7 Sonnet, recently launched as the first hybrid reasoning model, will be a primary subject of evaluation across tasks including hypothesis generation, experiment planning, code generation, and result analysis. This builds on Anthropic's April 2024 collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was the first instance of a frontier lab evaluating a model in a Top Secret classified environment. The partnership signals deepening government-industry collaboration on AI for scientific discovery and national security.
Anthropic and Government of Rwanda Sign Three-Year MOU for AI in Health and Education
Anthropic has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda, marking its first formalized multi-sector government partnership on the African continent. The agreement covers three areas: supporting Rwanda's Ministry of Health on goals including cervical cancer elimination and malaria reduction, providing Claude and Claude Code access with training and API credits to public sector developers, and expanding an existing education partnership that includes 2,000 Claude Pro licenses for educators and a Claude-powered learning companion deployed across eight African countries. The deal is managed through Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team and builds on an ALX education partnership announced in November 2025.
Anthropic Offers Claude Enterprise and Government Access to All Three U.S. Government Branches for $1
Anthropic is offering Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the U.S. federal government — executive, legislative, and judiciary — for $1 for one year, removing cost barriers to AI adoption. The offer includes FedRAMP High-certified models, continuous frontier model updates, and technical support, accessible via existing GSA schedule procurement and infrastructure partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Palantir. Existing government deployments cited include a $200M DoD agreement, 10,000 daily users at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a DC Department of Health multilingual services deployment. Anthropic is calling on other AI companies to make similar commitments to U.S. government access.