Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea

Matt Slotnick / @matt_slotnick: "we've secured 5 gigawatts for Claude" sounds like a bad startup mad libs joke you'd tell in 2015 NEED MORE COMPUTE "...This encompasses current and future generations of Trainium (Amazon's custom silicon) and tens of millions of Graviton cores (Amazon's widely-adopted CPU chip) to provide superior price performance. Anthropic will secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity to train and power their advanced AI models, including significant Trainium3 capacity expected to come online this year."