Architect of UK’s AI strategy joins Anthropic amid conflict of interest warning

This story is from 2026-09-02. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Matt Clifford will stay as chair of government funding body for tech projects alongside his senior role at US firm

Read the full story at The Guardian AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

2026-09-02 14:29 · The Guardian AI
Architect of UK’s AI strategy joins Anthropic amid conflict of interest warning

More stories

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejects ‘AI will end the world’ claim, yet cautions ‘we should go as fast as we can but...’ — Mint AI
AI's role in building AI surging? Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D — Mint AI
Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself — Fast Company AI
we made a 27b model for creative writing. performs as good as claude fable 5, at a 40x cheaper price, open weights. — r/GeminiAI
AI skills — r/AI_Agents
Anthropic selects Accenture as first embedded evaluator to help implement Amodei's slowdown proposal — CNBC Technology

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →