Anthropic opens its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signs an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety, security and model evaluation. An Anthropic Economic Index ranks Singapore second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage per capita. GovTech Singapore says more than 1,500 engineers use Claude Code.
CZ Biohub, the Department of Energy, and the NIH commit $1.8 billion to generate open, AI-ready biological data for predicting and treating disease. The DOE plans to spend more than $500 million over five years through its Genesis Mission, while Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and Meta together invest $300 million in the Virtual Biology Initiative. Biohub will standardize datasets from prior NIH-funded repositories for AI model training.
The Pentagon says it has ceased using Anthropic's Claude after designating the company a supply chain risk, a statement to the BBC confirms. Meta reportedly cut its Claude Code seats from 60,000 to about 30,000, and Microsoft trimmed expected Anthropic spending by more than a third. The pullbacks come weeks before Anthropic's planned IPO, which Bloomberg reports could occur the week of Nov. 9.
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a sovereign German-English open-weight AI model for mission-critical government and industry use, combining 78 billion total parameters with roughly 3 billion active per token and training data screened against a 4.5-million-URL blocklist.
Former DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warns New York City Council that misaligned AI could become a more powerful adversary than China, as Speaker Julie Menin says the council will pursue SpaceXAI in court after it ignores a subpoena to Elon Musk.
Amazon launches its Built Together framework, pledging more than $1 billion over five years to U.S. data-center communities while ending government-agency NDAs and committing to annual public disclosures on energy, water and carbon-free power.
Anthropic now makes Claude for Government generally available in a FedRAMP High-authorized environment for U.S. federal and state agencies, adding early access to Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 with hard spending caps and agency-controlled conversation history.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils six Pentagon initiatives, including an Autonomous Warfare Command slated to become a four-star combatant command by Oct. 1, 2027, and Project Meridian, which gives Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich 120 days to review next-generation military technology.
Trump rejects new federal AI regulations and backs a voluntary accord requiring outside auditors to assess AI models and companies to strengthen internal controls after meeting with Nvidia and Anthropic CEOs at the White House.
President Trump says tech executives sign a “morally binding” AI constitution at the White House and proposes a 10-person industry oversight committee as firms face pressure to monitor model capabilities and prevent unintended hacks.