U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that sanctions are possible after White House officials accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its own K3 model. The White House alleged Moonshot obtained Nvidia GB300 servers banned from export to China and conducted large-scale distillation against U.S. AI models. The accusations have intensified debate in Washington about whether the U.S. should restrict Chinese open-weight AI models to preserve technological advantage.
Anthropic launched a Claude connector that lets users query the Anthropic Economic Index directly, allowing people to ask questions about AI adoption across occupations, tasks, and regions. The connector integrates into claude.ai in about a minute and works across all Claude models without installation. Users can now explore real data on how AI is being used in the economy to understand impacts on their own fields and work.
Anthropic is launching a $200 million Economic Futures Research Fund to support external research on how to prepare society for AI's economic impacts, focusing on worker transitions, income support modernization, and ensuring AI gains are broadly shared. The fund will primarily support projects in the $5–30 million range and prioritize five research areas: workplace AI integration, retraining and job placement, AI-driven displacement support, worker stakes in AI growth, and public investment effectiveness. Research findings will be shared publicly at key milestones to help workers, firms, and governments adapt to potential AI-driven economic disruption.
Anthropic acquired AI startup Mendral in an acqui-hire, bringing on the founding team to expand Claude's software engineering capabilities, particularly for automating CI/CD tasks like diagnosing failures and fixing flaky tests.Mendral operated three always-on AI agents (Security, Reliability, and Performance) running on isolated sandboxes with sub-25ms resume times, and the founders noted that Claude model improvements every few months made parts of their roadmap obsolete while enabling new capabilities.The Mendral team will now work directly within Anthropic to build native tooling for enterprise CI/CD pipelines and agent-based development automation, following Anthropic's earlier acquisition of Stainless for SDK generation and MCP server tooling.
Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy discusses his investment in Anthropic, which grew from pre-revenue to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May—growth Murphy says exceeds anything he's seen in 25 years across internet, mobile, and cloud. Anthropic's valuation was $4 billion at the Series D despite having no revenue, and success came from building a full platform with Claude Code, MCP, and Claude Skills rather than relying solely on the underlying model. Founders competing in AI must move faster and broader to match the pace of companies like Lovable and Legora, which are scaling quicker than any startups Murphy has previously encountered.
AMD is committing up to $5 billion in investment to Anthropic while supplying the AI company with its Instinct MI450 GPUs for expanded computing capacity. The partnership includes deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD hardware, with the first gigawatt coming online in the first half of 2027. Anthropic gains significant computational resources to support its large language models, while AMD secures a major customer for its data center AI chips.
Anthropic donated an additional $20 million to Public First Action, a non-partisan organization advocating for AI safeguards and policy, bringing total support to $40 million. The donation supports public education efforts and policy work, with Anthropic citing rapidly advancing AI capabilities—including Claude Mythos Preview discovering thousands of software vulnerabilities—as justification for stricter government oversight, transparency requirements, and safety testing before deployment. The funding aims to build political support for regulations including independent model evaluation, export controls on chips, and government authority to slow or block AI models posing catastrophic risk.
Anthropic and Physical Intelligence held acquisition talks this spring, according to The Information, fueling weekend rumors on social media despite a denial from Physical Intelligence's CEO. Physical Intelligence has raised over $1 billion and was valued at $11 billion in spring funding discussions, and its π0.5 model is widely used in robotics research. The potential deal highlights both companies' race to acquire robotics expertise as they prepare for IPOs, though OpenAI's existing stake in Physical Intelligence may complicate any transaction.
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