Mayor's directive
Accept $100,000 Anthropic credits for cybersecurity
Last activity July 9, 2026 (2 months ago)
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Introduced
June 22, 2026
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In committee
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Council vote
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Adopted
The matter authorizes the City of Boston to accept and spend $100,000 of Anthropic credits granted through the SLTT Cyber Defenders Program. Credits will fund automated cyber scanning, triaging, and patching of city technology using Claude Opus 4.8 to strengthen defenses against AI‑driven threats. Introduced 2026-06-22; passed by City Council on 2026-07-08.
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Official title
Councilor Santana called Docket #1225, message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) of credits from Anthropic to strengthen the City’s cyber defenses. These credits are granted by Anthropic through the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) Cyber Defenders Program. The credits will be utilized to automate the scanning, triaging, and patching of our City’s technology infrastructure using Claude Opus 4.8, the latest model of Anthropic’s generative AI tool. This initiative will help to significantly elevate our cybersecurity posture against increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven threats, from the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice. No objection being heard, the matter was properly before the body.
Timeline
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June 24, 2026
Referred to
City Council
Referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice.
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July 8, 2026
Passed
City Council
On motion of Councilor Santana, the order was passed: yeas 11 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Mejia), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).