‘This Is a War’: OpenAI and Anthropic are spending massive amounts of money to influence US midterms
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/anthropic-openai-super-pacs-midterms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.CfrE.-2SwwnrZCxULOpen linkView original on feddit.uk305
Comments17
If I were a politician I'd take all the bribes. Every one offered. It would all go in to a fund to prosecute every one of the bribers very publicly and openly and none would get what they wanted out of the bribery.
I'd probably get shot on day one.
Not "probably"
It's fucking FTX again.
Right in front of everybody.
Capitalists are stupid.
Me too, what's FTX?
The short version is crypto company that was run by a pseudo-intellectual tech bro who tried to altruism-wash his image and lobbied both dems and gop to get what he wanted.
Except AI has a limited but valid use case, where FTX was straight up a scam. Will get back to you if (and that's a big if) they discover a way to do AGI.
I do agree though. It isn't far off from from what SBF did. All this money circlejerk has a limited run. I've stopped investing past couple of months. Will see if I lose or win.
Can't really trust techbros named Sam as we've seen
Or any techbros really, but especially the ones named Sam.
Scam Bankrun Fraud. Sam 'Madoff' Altman....
If we get AGI it can perfect fusion reactors, and we can put the entire thing in space and it wouldn't be a problem.
It will still be a problem because politics and greed.
All this money from where? Lol like aren't these companies desperate to turn a profit? Are the investors cool with these companies just burning investor money for political spending? Or is that the point of AI, just a new excuse yo dump money into the austerity narrative
The answer is always billionaires and corrupt grifters.
Why do you think the investors are investing so much in said company? They want more, and buying a politician has, so far, had a pretty good ROI.
It's shocking how cheap some of these reps are
Occasionally I have to do training at work where we learn not to take bribes. I'm sure it works wonderfully.
At one point they give examples of bribes we should not take, and they're always rubbish things like a free meal at a fancy restaurant. Nah I want some money, I want to be bribed properly.
It's literal fake money. When you read news of Anthropic investing $400B in Google, do you think that's "money" in the same sense it is for real people?
Its all Monopoly money