Anthropic poaches Orange's AI chief Jarrett
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- Steve Jarrett, Chief AI Officer at French telecom group Orange (ORAN.PA), has left the company to join U.S.-based AI firm Anthropic.
- Anthropic said Jarrett will help the company "better understand and adapt" its products to the European and African markets.
Why it matters: Orange loses a senior AI leader to a U.S. frontier lab, and Anthropic gains a telecom-veteran hire whose stated remit is product localization for Europe and Africa — two regions where regulatory, linguistic, and infrastructure adaptation directly shape market access.
