Anthropic is a US AI lab whose Claude models underpin European deployments tracked here, including Allianz's claims-automation platform. In July 2026 it hired Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield to run compute strategy, betting that compute access — not model architecture — is the binding constraint on more autonomous AI. The hire landed weeks after a 19-day access blackout for European customers, the dependency on US-controlled infrastructure that Mistral and Germany's SPRIND programme are trying to counter.