Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job (Ian Duncan/Washington Post)

Ian Duncan / Washington Post: Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job — The Department of Commerce had picked Anthropic researcher Collin Burns to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. — Summary

Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)
Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios)
Sources: Anthropic largely left European regulators out of the loop as it limited Mythos' release to select companies and organizations; the UK AISI tested it (Politico)
Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-24

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