OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters

It was a engaged summertime for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying 4th betwixt July and September, national disclosures show.

Nvidia spent the astir of the radical astatine $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic's $2.1 cardinal and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Compared to different Big Tech companies with long-established presences successful Washington, the sums aren't retired of the ordinary. Microsoft, for example, has spent astatine slightest $2 cardinal a 4th going backmost to 2021, and Google regularly spends implicit $3 million, including this quarter. But it's a wide awesome that the 3 AI firms admit however important shaping argumentation …

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