Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-names-global-affairs-chief-tackle-ai-policy-trump-tensions-persist-2026-08-04/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260804/i33.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260804/p33#a260804p33" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jeffrey Dastin / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-names-global-affairs-chief-tackle-ai-policy-trump-tensions-persist-2026-08-04/">Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cu&eacute;llar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic on Tuesday named Mariano-Florentino Cu&eacute;llar its first chief global affairs officer, as the developer &hellip; </p>