About this episode

The episode discusses the rise in oil prices due to the Middle East conflict and its impact on Europe's economy, along with concerns regarding Anthropic's AI model.

Plus: The conflict in the Middle East deals a blow to Europe’s hopes for an economic revival. And, the White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand access to its powerful Mythos AI model over security concerns. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Luke Vargas

Topics covered

• oil prices
• Middle East conflict
• economic revival
• AI security concerns
• business news

Keywords

• oil prices
• Middle East
• Europe
• Anthropic
• Mythos AI
• economic revival
• security concerns

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: White House, Anthropic

Products: Mythos AI model

Places: Middle East, Europe

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