Anthropic offers steep discounts for government Claude access, with California among early adopters

Amazon's massive investment in AI infrastructure could intensify competition for computing resources, impacting global data center costs. The post Amazon could pay up to $33 billion total for Anthropic technology under expanded deal appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Amazon's exploration of alternative AI models highlights the financial and geopolitical complexities of AI investments and enterprise scalability. The post Amazon evaluates alternative AI models after Anthropic deal shift to token-based billing appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

California's AI deployment could set a precedent for state-level tech governance, influencing national AI policy and public sector adoption. The post California signs deal with Anthropic to deploy Claude across state government appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover … Read the full story at The Verge.

The clampdown may inadvertently strengthen global open-source AI, challenging US dominance and accelerating foreign AI development. The post White House clampdown on OpenAI, Anthropic could boost open-source AI appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The Trump administration has begun softening its restrictions on Anthropic’s powerful cybersecurity AI models, allowing Mythos 5 to be made available to more than 100 specific US government agencies and companies. The directive, issued by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic’s chief compute officer Tom Brown, confirmed that appropriate safeguards were in place to permit […]

The Trump administration’s tightening grip on frontier AI model releases is creating a crisis that threatens the entire AI industry, not just individual companies. Following the withdrawal of Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models from public availability, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 has now been placed in a government-gated limited preview, with access approved on a customer-by-customer basis before […]