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➡️ If you would like to receive this information in your inbox every morning before the markets open in New York, sign up here. Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program ahead of the 2028 elections, building an in-house team that will work directly with U.S. presidential candidates from both parties on AI issues, help Anthropic’s leadership set political strategy, and run the company’s political funding program. The effort—which is taking shape before the November midterm elections and an impending initial public offering that could value Anthropic at as much as $2 trillion—underscores the extent to which government policy, and the support of the White House in particular, have become critical to the AI industry, Fortune’s Emily Forlini reports. The U.S. will not restart its war against Iran until after the midterms, President Donald Trump said last night on social media: “We are having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. … we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm…