{"id":874236,"date":"2026-04-05T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/874236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:48:14","slug":"the-uk-government-reportedly-wants-anthropic-to-expand-its-presence-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/874236\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK government reportedly wants Anthropic to expand its presence in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">While the US and Anthropic are in the midst of a <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-drop-anthropic-services-amid-pentagon-feud-222029306.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:major dispute;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;major dispute&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major dispute<\/a>, the UK is trying to sway the San Francisco-based AI company to expand its presence on English soil. According to a report from <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6bfd7b59-5e63-4a4d-ab55-7c2bd39b05a5?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Financial Times;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Financial Times&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">The Financial Times<\/a>, staffers at the UK&#8217;s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have worked on proposals that include expanding Anthropic&#8217;s office in London, along with a potential dual stock listing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The UK&#8217;s strategy follows a public fallout between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense earlier this year. After the AI company said it wouldn&#8217;t budge on certain AI guardrails, the Department of Defense pulled its contract and eventually designated Anthropic a <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/anthropic-says-it-will-challenge-defense-departments-supply-chain-risk-designation-in-court-054459618.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:supply chain risk;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;supply chain risk&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supply chain risk<\/a>. While the designation is currently temporarily blocked by a <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/court-temporarily-blocks-us-government-from-labeling-anthropic-as-a-supply-chain-risk-083857528.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:court-ordered injunction;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;court-ordered injunction&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court-ordered injunction<\/a>, the feud is far from over. In the meantime, the UK&#8217;s efforts to court Anthropic have ramped up in the recent weeks thanks to the company&#8217;s disagreements with the US, according to FT&#8217;s sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">With no end in sight for the debacle with the Department of Defense, Anthropic&#8217;s CEO, Dario Amodei, is expected to visit the UK in May, according to FT. However, even in London, Anthropic will have to compete against <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/openai-make-london-its-biggest-research-hub-outside-us-2026-02-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yAffiliateService&quot;:&quot;doNotAffiliate&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">OpenAI<\/a>, which already committed to expanding its footprint in the English capital in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the US and Anthropic are in the midst of a major dispute, the UK is trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[28396,748,393,4884,257,16,15,5756],"class_list":{"0":"post-874236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-department-of-defense"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116353598073612268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}