Anthropic Hires Former California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuéllar as Its First Chief Global Affairs Officer, Mid-Fight With the Pentagon
Anthropic announced on August 4 that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar — who just stepped down as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and before that served as a Justice of the California Supreme Court and director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute — will lead policy, international engagement, and government relations, reporting to President Daniela Amodei. The timing is the story: the appointment lands while Anthropic is litigating the Defense Department's supply-chain blacklisting and suing over export controls it argues were applied without statutory basis, after refusing to permit Claude's use for lethal autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Creating the role at all signals Anthropic now treats government conflict as a standing function rather than a crisis.
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