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Anthropic starts a critical-infrastructure defense program with security partners

Anthropic announced a program to bring Claude models, on-site engineers and threat research to a small group of providers that secure power, water, industrial and government systems. Founding partners include security firms, consultancies and manufacturers. Anthropic says some partner work is underway, but it has not shown broad deployment or measured risk reduction.

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Critical Infrastructure Defense Program

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Primary source · October 8, 2026

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