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Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech

Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co

Jun 29, 202600:55:06News & Politics

Semafor's editor-in-chief on why Washington has decided Anthropic needs to pick a side. Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Eric Newcomer to break down the collision between the Trump administrati...

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