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The episode discusses the most expensive AI election and the candidate who won it.

Hosts: James & Maya In this episode: • Hi, I'm Maya, and today we start with the most expensive AI election yet — and the candidate who won it, then turned on his funders. • Right. Micah Lasher took New York's 12th district. Anthropic and OpenAI spent a

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Hosts: Maya, James

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Organizations: Anthropic, OpenAI

Places: New York, 12th district

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