Anthropic

Akamai has signed a seven-year cloud services agreement with Anthropic carrying $11.6 billion in contractual commitments, with room to expand by $9 billion.

Anthropic will open a Singapore office in October, its first in Southeast Asia and fifth in APAC, with local hiring planned across several functions.

Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, will join hands in Western Downs Digital Park, a data center project in Australia worth A$31.9 billion ($22.2 billion).

Rubrik introduced Code Guardian for Claude-based code red-teaming and Rubrik MCP for controlled AI-agent access to security workflows. Both are currently in private preview.

Salesforce has unveiled AIforce, a live interface layer that exposes governed CRM data and workflows through Claude, Slack and Agentforce interfaces.

China puts equal emphasis on development and security in artificial intelligence (AI) and has released an updated AI safety governance framework, its foreign ministry said.

China's foreign ministry warned against "fear-mongering" over AI after U.S. executives, led by Anthropic's Dario Amodei, called for slowing the technology's development and cautioned that a Chinese lead would threaten U.S. security.

Anthropic co-founder and chief executive Dario Amodei has called on the AI industry to "deliberately" slow the pace of developing models.

Anthropic says it disrupted AI-orchestrated cyber operations and unauthorized attempts by labs to extract capabilities from Claude.

Salesforce and Anthropic have announced Claudeforce, beginning with a Claude plugin that connects sellers to Salesforce data and workflows.