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Topic covering AI companies' lobbying, political spending, and engagement with lawmakers shaping AI regulation at state and federal levels.
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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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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The president wrote that the only guardrails AI needs is a smart president, and said his administration has stopped Dario Amodei from doing bad things. TechRadar reports an earlier bid to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk failed.
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OpenAI and Anthropic spent $3.17m on federal lobbying last quarter. The $20m Anthropic put into a political group is the number procurement teams should be pricing.
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Sarah Friar told staff an IPO is a milestone, not a finish line, in the same week OpenAI said it slowed scaling and the WSJ reported 18% quarterly revenue growth. Capital is the constraint being managed.
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