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TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning
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Jun 22, 2026
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Political AI: OpenAI's Washington Playbook vs. Anthropic's Naivety
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Owen Thomas delivers the sharpest political insight of the episode: OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane is the same mastermind who navigated Airbnb through city-by-city regulatory wars, and Anthropic needs to 'staff the F up in Washington.' Leo adds that OpenAI's Greg Brockman donated millions to Trump's PAC, OpenAI pledged 10% of its IPO to the US government, and Sam Altman stood next to Trump at the inaugural for Stargate. Anthropic did none of this and got banned. Doc Rock invokes the prohibition analogy: banning AI, like banning alcohol or drugs, will drive it underground and ultimately fail. The conversation turns to whether Trump may simply be reading polls showing that 61% of Americans don't want AI in products at all.
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