Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic "better understand and adapt" its products to Europe and Africa (Gianluca Lo Nostro/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/anthropic-hires-oranges-ai-chief-amid-europe-push-2026-06-25/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260625/i30.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260625/p30#a260625p30" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Gianluca Lo Nostro / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/anthropic-hires-oranges-ai-chief-amid-europe-push-2026-06-25/">Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic &ldquo;better understand and adapt&rdquo; its products to Europe and Africa</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The artificial intelligence head of French telecoms group Orange (ORAN.PA) has left the company to join U.S. AI startup Anthropic, he said on Thursday.</p>