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Mark Rober (83.1M subscribers), Kurzgesagt (25.6M) and Preston (17.9M) launched #TeamHuman, a campaign backed by the Center for AI Safety, with a combined reach above 300 million subscribers.
The demands are specific rather than vibes: chip tracking, international limits on compute scaling, and a global AI watchdog modelled on the IAEA.
What makes this different from previous open letters is who is signing. Researchers signing a statement reaches other researchers. Three creators with 300 million subscribers between them reach an audience that has never read an alignment paper and votes. Whether the specific demands are workable is a separate question from whether this changes who is in the conversation, and it plainly does.
Claude for Government Is Generally Available
Anthropic's government offering is now generally available to US federal and state agencies in a FedRAMP High environment.
FedRAMP High is the authorisation tier covering systems where compromise would have severe or catastrophic effect - law enforcement, emergency services, financial and health systems. Getting there is a multi-year compliance exercise, and it is the gate that decides whether an agency can buy at all. This is less a product launch than a procurement unlock.
Anthropic Has Booked $660 Million in Charity Match
Anthropic recorded more than $660 million in non-cash expenses for its charity match between October 2025 and March 2026, with roughly $125 million in Q1 2026 alone - about 10% of employee expenses and 2% of operating costs.
Non-cash matters here: this is equity, not money leaving a bank account, which against a $965 billion May valuation is both an enormous headline figure and a line item that does not touch runway. It is a real transfer of value and it is not cash out the door, and both halves of that belong in any description of it.
Schneider Electric Is Reportedly Buying PTC
Reported at over $20 billion, which would be Schneider Electric's largest acquisition ever, covering PTC's product design and industrial IoT portfolio - Creo, ThingWorx, Codebeamer and Onshape.
An announcement was said to be possible as soon as Monday. Industrial design software plus an electrical infrastructure company is a data centre story: the two things in shortest supply right now are places to put compute and power to run it, and Schneider sells the second.
Washington Names Its AI Group
The administration's Super Intelligence Force will be chaired by DNI Jay Clayton, with FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Emil Michael and Scott Kupor. No budget or timeline has been disclosed.
Michael is the War Department CTO overseeing the 120-day Project Meridian warfare study. The overlap between the people coordinating federal AI policy and the people running defence AI programmes is worth tracking as this develops.
Also
- Toshiba will double HDD production capacity by fiscal 2027, targeting 30% of the market by volume from around 10%, aimed at cold storage for AI data centres. Spinning disks are having an unexpected decade.
- Sam Altman told Politico's Decoded there is "a lot of daylight" between OpenAI and Anthropic on AI regulation, arguing for accepting some risk in exchange for benefits.
- One roundup reports that OpenAI cancelled Astra 6.1 over safety concerns. We have found a single source for this and OpenAI has not confirmed it, so treat it as unverified until it is.
The Thread
Three of today's items are about who gets to decide. Three hundred million subscribers want a global watchdog. The administration named four people to coordinate federal policy. Anthropic cleared the compliance bar that lets agencies buy, while OpenAI's chief executive publicly distanced himself from Anthropic's regulatory position.
The technical arguments have been settled enough that the fight has moved to governance, and this is the week the audience for that fight got much larger.