The State Department has removed Anthropic’s Claude model from its internal chatbot after a directive from President Trump. The Treasury and Health & Human Services departments are also ending Claude use, urging staff to adopt ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. Meanwhile, the Senate has approved the use of Gemini, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot for official work, outlining specific tasks for the tools. The changes reflect a broader realignment of AI policy across federal agencies. Read more →

Anthropic announced the creation of the Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank that merges three of its research teams to study AI's societal, economic, and safety impacts. The move coincides with a lawsuit against the U.S. government over a Pentagon blacklist that would block its technology from defense contracts. Co‑founder Jack Clark shifts to lead the institute as head of public benefit, while Sarah Heck takes over the public policy group. The institute launches with roughly 30 researchers, including former Google DeepMind and OpenAI staff, and plans to double its staff each year while continuing to address national‑security and democratic‑leadership issues in AI. Read more →

Google is rolling out its Gemini AI agents to the U.S. Department of Defense, initially on unclassified networks. The agents will automate tasks such as summarizing meetings, building budgets, and checking actions against the national defense strategy. Defense personnel can also create custom agents using natural language. The rollout follows a rapid expansion of Pentagon AI partnerships and comes despite earlier internal resistance to military AI projects. Google’s AI chatbot on the GenAI.mil portal has already seen widespread adoption among Defense employees. Read more →