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.
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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 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.
Dario Amodei Statement on Anthropic's Commitment to American AI Leadership and Policy Alignment
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a public statement clarifying the company's policy positions and government relationships amid what he describes as inaccurate claims about Anthropic's stances. The statement highlights Anthropic's federal contracts (including a $200M DoD agreement), support for the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, opposition to a 10-year moratorium on state AI laws, and support for California's SB 53 requiring large AI developers to publish safety protocols. Amodei also addresses claims of model political bias, citing a Manhattan Institute study, and reiterates Anthropic's unique policy of restricting AI service sales to PRC-controlled companies.
Anthropic Launches The Anthropic Institute for AI Societal Impact Research
Anthropic is establishing The Anthropic Institute, a new interdisciplinary research body led by co-founder Jack Clark in his new role as Head of Public Benefit. The Institute consolidates and expands three existing Anthropic teams—Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and Economic Research—to study AI's effects on economies, jobs, governance, and legal systems. Notable founding hires include Matt Botvinick (AI and rule of law), Anton Korinek (transformative AI economics), and Zoë Hitzig (AI social/economic impacts). Anthropic is simultaneously expanding its Public Policy organization and opening a Washington DC office.
Anthropic Commits $50 Billion to U.S. AI Computing Infrastructure with Fluidstack
Anthropic is investing $50 billion in American AI computing infrastructure, partnering with Fluidstack to build custom data centers in Texas and New York, with additional sites planned. The facilities are purpose-built for Anthropic's workloads and are expected to come online throughout 2026, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs. The announcement aligns with the Trump administration's AI Action Plan and is framed as supporting domestic AI leadership. Anthropic cites growing enterprise demand—over 300,000 business customers and a sevenfold increase in large accounts over the past year—as driving the scale of investment.
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 responds to California Governor Newsom's AI working group draft report
Anthropic published a formal response to the California Governor's Working Group on AI Frontier Models draft report, endorsing its emphasis on transparency and evidence-based policy. Anthropic argues that light-touch mandatory disclosure of safety and security practices would be beneficial without impeding innovation, noting that current voluntary practices are uneven across frontier labs. The response also references Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy and Economic Index as examples of existing transparency efforts, and signals urgency given Anthropic's view that powerful AI systems may arrive as early as end of 2026.
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.