A U.S. super PAC funding political campaigns that favor light-touch AI regulation, backed by venture capital firms and AI industry executives.
Super PACs in the Leading the Future network paid two Nevada LLCs about $33 million, according to WIRED's review of federal filings. The Campaign Legal Center alleges the LLCs hide the real payees, and the FEC has lacked a quorum to hear its complaint since May 2025.
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman has stopped at $25 million of the $50 million he and his wife pledged to the Leading the Future super PAC. The stop followed objections from his own staff, while industry money keeps reaching the midterms through ads that mostly leave AI out.
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California now holds chatbot companies liable for failing to take reasonable measures against harmful outputs. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon all sat in the negotiations that wrote the standard.
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council to align how countries test AI capabilities and report failures. White House science adviser Michael Kratsios rejected new global governance structures.
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Most of the money reached the South Dakota senator as outside spending from Defend American Jobs, a group funded by a super PAC financed by Andreessen Horowitz, in a state whose legislature has already made hyperscalers pay more for water and power.
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Outside money in Alex Bores' House primary topped $40 million, and the largest disclosed sum, Anthropic's $20 million, funded a PAC in his corner. He lost anyway, and his new nonprofit starts with $10 million.
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The NRSC has privately told AI companies that data centers are sinking a Senate seat in Ohio. That changes what belongs on an infrastructure roadmap.
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OpenAI has asked Congress for six mandatory safety requirements before it adjourns. Two of the four California bills the company backed were signed on Tuesday, and that is where the compliance work starts for everyone smaller.
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Healey's order makes a signed community benefits agreement the price of entry to state permitting for anything above 25 megawatts, while the cost of missing the 100% clean-power test stays unpriced until MassDEP writes that rule by December 31.
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The blocking is happening at a level federal permitting reform cannot reach, which is why the White House is now arguing with voters rather than regulators, and why on-site generation is becoming the price of consent.
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Crypto, AI and betting firms are behind record corporate election spending, and Trump is adding a $400 million super PAC. The CLARITY Act still needs 60 Senate votes.
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Chamath Palihapitiya says the state-level revolt against AI data centers could cost 200 to 300 basis points of annual US GDP. The permitting risk is now bipartisan.
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Florida's Republican gubernatorial nominee ran on ratepayer costs while taking AI PAC money. The NRSC calls data centers a midterm "sleeper issue." Cost allocation is now a schedule risk.
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A private Republican memo blames data-center backlash for Jon Husted's trouble in Ohio. The warning inside it is about approvals everywhere, which makes it a cost line, not a talking point.
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