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Anthropic proposes putting a slice of its equity into a public-benefit fund as California’s billionaire-tax campaign burns more than a million dollars a day. Plus: AI’s workforce impact, a warning for coding-tool users, the week’s earnings and tech calendar, and a few useful oddities.