Overview

• Deloitte will roll out Claude to more than 470,000 employees across over 150 countries in Anthropic’s largest enterprise deployment to date, with role-specific personas and a Claude Center of Excellence; financial terms were not disclosed.
• IBM announced a strategic partnership to integrate Claude into select software products, starting with a new AI‑first IDE that is in private preview, where over 6,000 early adopters report average productivity gains of 45%.
• As part of the IBM deal, the companies introduced a guide for building secure enterprise AI agents using an Agent Development Lifecycle, with IBM contributing assets to the Model Context Protocol community.
• Anthropic confirmed it will open its first India office in Bengaluru, targeting an early‑2026 start and focusing on developers and startups in what it says is its second‑largest consumer market for Claude.
• Anthropic is reported to be exploring a partnership with Reliance Industries as CEO Dario Amodei visits India, and Deloitte separately faces scrutiny after Australia’s labor department said it must refund part of a contract over AI‑generated errors in a report.