Coalition Tells FCC That Anthropic's Subsea Cable Security Claims Are Technically Wrong

Anthropic, the $965 billion AI darling, filed comments with the FCC warning of dire foreign-adversary threats to submarine cable infrastructure — only to be publicly corrected by a coalition including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Verizon. The International Connectivity Coalition told the FCC that Anthropic's hacking concerns were "unsupported by any evidence in the record" and that submarine cable connectivity "bears no resemblance to the open, internet-facing exposure Anthropic implies."

The coalition also pushed back on Anthropic's claim that cable operators could throttle or manipulate AI workloads, calling it "incorrect as a technical and operational matter," and warned the FCC against adopting Anthropic's regulatory suggestions, which it said exceeded the agency's statutory authority. Perhaps next time, someone at Anthropic should ask Claude.