Gates-Anthropic $200M deal, looser bio safeguards, and a secret biology lab
ramagetime · x · 2026-09-19
An investigation lines up three Anthropic dates: May 14, a four-year, $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation covering global health and life sciences (Claude credits plus staff); Sept 17, a Life Sciences Verification Program whose safeguards are explicitly "more permissive" for biology work; Sept 18, Reuters reveals Anthropic quietly built a physical biology lab of undisclosed purpose. Paired with Bill Gates warning that open-source AI could enable bioterrorism while his foundation funds frontier AI bio research, the author asks: who watches the rule-makers?
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