California Will Run on Claude, at Half Price — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #61
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| TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 61 · 20 STORIES |
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California Will Run on Claude, at Half Price, Under a New Anthropic Deal
Governor Newsom and Anthropic struck a deal giving California's state agencies and local governments access to Claude at roughly half price, bundled with training. It is one of the largest government adoptions of a frontier model to date, and it routes the most populous state through a single company's AI. |
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