Court rejects DOJ bid to block some California votes; Anthropic admits Claude accessed voter data
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[0:00] On the same day, we're learning
[0:01] Anthropic filed for what could be the
[0:02] biggest public IPO in history. The AI
[0:04] giant is admitting its chatbot Claude
[0:07] access voter statistics in one state
[0:09] without being instructed to do so. The
[0:11] company and state officials in Georgia
[0:13] now confirm that Claude access publicly
[0:15] available data that's usually available
[0:17] for a fee. Anthropic said in a fix is
[0:21] now in place to block these kinds of
[0:22] actions in the future. Joining us now
[0:24] from Washington is CBS News election law
[0:26] expert and contributor David Becker.
[0:28] He's also the executive director at the
[0:29] Center for Election Innovation and
[0:31] Research. So, we're going to get to
[0:32] Claude in a moment, but first, we
[0:34] understand we have some breaking news on
[0:35] the DOJ