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Who is Tino Cuellar and why did Anthropic hire him?

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, known as Tino, is a former California Supreme Court Justice and former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Anthropic appointed him as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, signaling a major investment in policy and regulatory engagement.

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Anthropic's August: Global Watermarks, a Policy Heavyweight, and a Rough Outage

Anthropic rolled out worldwide watermarking, hired a former California Supreme Court justice as policy chief, and weathered a major Claude outage.

Crashtech Editorial August 16, 2026 AI Business & Money

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