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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Anthropic

Anthropic announces broad set of partnerships and funding to expand Claude adoption

Anthropic disclosed a series of partnerships and funding commitments to accelerate adoption of its Claude models and AI evaluation capacity. Highlights include a $150M, three-year commitment to the federal Genesis Mission, a $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation (grants, credits, technical support), a joint initiative with Accenture to embed independent evaluators with a combined expected investment of at least $1B, and commercial alliances rolling Claude out with firms such as KPMG, TCS, Cognizant, DXC, UST and deployments (e.g., Government of Alberta using Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet).

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Microsoft publishes open-source 'Probabilistic Bias Correction' to improve 2–6 week forecasts

Microsoft researchers published a Nature paper and released open-source software called Probabilistic Bias Correction (PBC) that uses machine learning to correct systematic biases in existing weather models; the team reports PBC improved ECMWF model performance for most precipitation and temperature targets and can run on CPUs. The paper lists coauthors from MIT, ECMWF and others and the method is being tested with partners such as Rhiza Research and the Kenya Meteorological Service.

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