Anthropic filed with the FEC to form an employee-funded political action committee called AnthroPAC (voluntary employee contributions, $5,000 individual per-election cap). The PAC is expected to back candidates from both parties amid scrutiny over whether it will stay balanced. The move comes while Anthropic is in a dispute with the Defense Department, which labeled it a supply-chain risk after Anthropic opposed using its AI for fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance; Anthropic has temporarily blocked that designation in court. The company has already financed political activity this cycle (including $20M to Public First Action), and Google is preparing multibillion-dollar support for a Texas data center leased to Anthropic.

Anthropic filed with the FEC to create an employee-funded PAC (AnthroPAC) with $5,000 per-election individual contribution caps and plans to support candidates from both parties; this follows a legal dispute with the Defense Department over a supply-chain risk designation (temporarily blocked in court), prior political spending (a $20M contribution to Public First Action), and a Google-backed multibillion-dollar Texas data center project mentioned in the summary.