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Claude's election rules change November 12. What stays prohibited?

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Anthropic is removing a blanket election-targeting ban, but the change isn't effective yet and political use won't become unrestricted. Augur explains the November 12 transition, the civic-work rationale, and why deception, surveillance, and privacy rules still matter.

The episode also examines OpenAI's false-front influence operations, TII's Arabic transcription results, Google's proposed $10 million purchase of Spirit's deidentified enterprise data, and the verification work behind OpenAI's new mathematics release. Haiku pricing and Ollama's temporary duplicate model files…

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