A MAGA-friendly advocacy group, Innovation Council Action, announced a $100m push to promote Trump's AI agenda but has shown no spending or activity months later, with a related PAC defunct and a diss…
OpenAI backers spent $7.6 million to defeat New York Assemblyman Alex Bores in a congressional primary, while Anthropic-funded groups spent over $10 million to support him, turning the race into a pro…
John O'Farrell, the first general partner hired by Andreessen Horowitz, publicly accused the venture capital firm of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into political action committees to block…
OpenAI publicly stated it does not direct or fund the super PAC Leading the Future, but internal communications and the PAC's own operatives contradict that claim. OpenAI President Greg Brockman and h…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday he does not plan to donate to any 2026 U.S. election campaigns, even as other Silicon Valley billionaires pour money into midterm races that will decide control of…
Two AI-aligned super PACs, Public First and Leading the Future, have spent nearly $24 million in the 2026 U.S. midterm cycle, with over $100 million more in planned spending, according to a New York T…
Two super PACs aligned with major AI firms, Public First (allied with Anthropic) and Leading the Future (aligned with OpenAI), are engaged in a bitter feud during the 2026 midterm elections, having al…
Anthropic employees have donated more than $880,000 directly to political campaigns favoring stricter AI regulations, with OpenAI staff contributing an additional $300,000, according to FEC data analy…
A super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives has spent millions attacking New York Assemblymember Alex Bores in the NY-12 Democratic primary. Bores raised over $2.2 million last quarter…
OpenAI and Anthropic have spent millions in a political proxy war over AI regulation, but their efforts to defeat New York state assemblyman Alex Bores have backfired, turning the once-obscure candida…
Anthropic and OpenAI are using super PACs to influence the 2024 midterm elections, spending millions to attack congressional candidates and each other. Anthropic donated $20 million to a super PAC bac…
U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) initially distanced herself from the pro-artificial intelligence super PAC Leading the Future after it endorsed her, stating she did not seek the endorsement and criticizing…