Overview
- Anthropic, which filed Federal Election Commission papers Friday, set up “AnthroPAC” as an employee-funded committee with donations capped at $5,000 per candidate and a filing signed by treasurer Allison Rossi.
- The PAC is described in reports as bipartisan with a cross-party board, though some conservative outlets questioned that claim by pointing to past donations that skewed Democratic.
- U.S. District Judge Rita Lin last week issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the Pentagon’s “supply‑chain risk” label that would bar contractors from working with the company, and the Justice Department has filed notice it will appeal with a related D.C. case still pending.
- The dispute grew after the Pentagon sought broader use of Anthropic’s Claude model and the company refused to drop safeguards that ban mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal targeting.
- Separate reports say Google plans to help finance a Texas data center with Nexus Data Centers for Anthropic that could exceed $5 billion in its first phase, pointing to a parallel push to expand computing capacity.