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Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian)
The Guardian: Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to sta
The Guardian: Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company
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- Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud systems (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
- Anthropic researchers detail 'model spec midtraining', which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training (Anthropic)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-07