A Matter of Pretext

About this episode

The episode discusses a federal judge's decision on subpoenas against Jerome Powell and the implications of Anthropic's AI model Claude.

A federal judge nixes subpoenas against the Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Plus: what Anthropic did not want the government to do with its AI model “Claude.”

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord

Topics covered

• subpoenas
• AI
• federal judge
• government
• Jerome Powell
• Anthropic

Keywords

• subpoenas
• Jerome Powell
• Anthropic
• AI model
• Claude
• federal judge
• government

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic

Products: Claude

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