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Anthropic announced the formation of a National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council made up of bipartisan former senators and national security officials. The company says the council will help identify AI applications in cybersecurity, intelligence analysis and scientific research, and support development of standards for national security uses of its technology.
Anthropic published its Frontier Compliance Framework for California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act. The document describes the company’s approach to evaluating and mitigating catastrophic risks from frontier models, protecting model weights and responding to safety incidents. Anthropic says the framework will support compliance with SB 53 and other regulatory requirements.
Anthropic says future Claude models will embed a watermark in generated text by altering how the model selects among equally likely words, using a method called SynthID-Text. The company says the watermark is undetectable to readers, adds no cost or delay, and carries no information that could identify a user, organization, or chat.
Anthropic expanded its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, offering research grants and Claude credits to eligible researchers, convening policy forums with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and planning regular releases of more detailed regional data through the Anthropic Economic Index.
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a $150 million fellowship program that will train 1,000 early-career fellows to use Claude and place them for a year at nonprofits across the U.S. Fellows receive an $85,000 salary; the first cohort of 100 begins in October 2026, with at least 400 nonprofits hosting fellows.
Anthropic updated Claude’s Usage Policy to prohibit malicious computer and network compromise, narrow its restrictions on political content, clarify existing law enforcement rules and limit high-risk safeguards to consumer-facing outputs. The company said the revised policy would take effect on September 15, 2025.
Anthropic announced three commitments under the White House’s Pledge to America’s Youth: a $1 million investment in Carnegie Mellon University’s PicoCTF program, support for the Presidential AI Challenge, and a Creative Commons-licensed AI Fluency curriculum for K-12 and higher-education instructors that will work with any AI system.
The EU AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024 and applies in stages. The bans on prohibited practices and the AI-literacy duty applied from February 2025; obligations for general-purpose AI models from August 2025; and the main high-risk regime from August 2026, with product-embedded high-risk systems following in 2027.