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TechCrunch Jun 17, 2026 at 19:01 Startups Rising Hot

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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Jun 17, 2026 at 19:22 Hacker News

The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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Jun 17, 2026 at 19:01 TechCrunch

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a...

Jun 17, 2026 at 18:30 TechCrunch

Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

Jun 17, 2026 at 15:15 Hacker News

Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

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Jun 16, 2026 at 22:34 TechCrunch

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from...

Jun 16, 2026 at 21:00 Ars Technica

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

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