Anthropic MoU Brings Claude Into Singapore Agentic AI Test Framework at SICW

Anthropic has signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding with Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information, giving the city-state's AI Safety Institute direct technical access to a frontier model developer — the first such arrangement in the Asia-Pacific region with Anthropic as the counterparty. The agreement was signed October 13 at Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW) 2026, on the same day Singapore's 11th annual ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity convened, and coincided with the formal opening of Anthropic's fifth Asia-Pacific office, located in Raffles Place. The MoU, inked by MDDI Permanent Secretary Chng Kai Fong and Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann — with Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo and Anthropic Head of APAC Policy Michael Sellitto witnessing — commits Anthropic to technical exchanges on model evaluation, testing standards…

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