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AI Super PACs Target Senate Races

The saga chronicles the growing influence of AI-backed super PACs in U.S. elections, focusing on a recent $1 million injection into Senator Mike Rounds’s campaign. The latest development sees OpenAI’s president pulling back a $25 million pledge, signaling a pause in corporate political spending.

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    OpenAI president halts $25M pledge to AI super PAC

    Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, shelved half of a planned $50 million donation to the AI-focused super PAC Leading the Future after feeling it distracted the company. In a June…

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    AI super PACs pour close to one million dollars into Mike Rounds’s Dakota Senate race

    Major super PACs linked to AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s Senate campaign in South Dakota, according to FEC filings. Rounds…

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