AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him

NY-12 legislature campaigner Alex Bores speaks during a run event. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

By the clip that the Democratic superior for New York's 12th legislature territory wraps up successful June, Anthropic and OpenAI volition person spent millions connected their conflict implicit the governmental aboriginal of AI: who gets to modulate it, oregon who volition beryllium punished for trying to modulate it. But the existent victor of their feud whitethorn beryllium the feline they're presently warring over: a once-obscure New York authorities assemblyman, who they've Streisand-effected into becoming the poster kid for AI information regulation.

Ever since precocious 2025, Leading the Future, a ace PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives, has spent millions against Alex Bores, who wrote 1 of the …

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