Anthropic Hires Orange Group Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to Lead Europe and Africa Strategy Amid Post-Ban Expansion Push

Anthropic has hired Steve Jarrett, chief AI officer at French telecom group Orange, to help the company better understand and adapt its products to European and African markets, Reuters reported. The hire formalizes a Europe strategy as Anthropic navigates the export-control environment around Fable 5 and Mythos and faces EU scrutiny of its model access policies. Jarrett's background spans large-scale enterprise AI deployment across Orange's 500-million-customer footprint.