The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw

Alex Bores (D-NY) enters his ticker enactment astatine The Freehand Hotel aft conceding the legislature contention to Micah Lasher who volition regenerate Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY) successful NY's 12th Congressional District connected June 23, 2026 successful New York City. | Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images.

The expensive, $27 cardinal governmental proxy warfare betwixt Anthropic and OpenAI came to a gully past nighttime erstwhile Alex Bores, a New York authorities Assemblyman whose popularity surged aft being targeted by a pro-AI ace PAC, narrowly mislaid the Democratic primary to correspond New York's 12th Congressional district.

Prior to the race, Bores, a erstwhile tech manufacture employee, had coauthored and successfully passed the high-profile RAISE Act, which had implemented guardrails and information requirements connected frontier AI companies; a mentation of his measure was signed into authorities instrumentality past year. But the authorities drew the ire of Leading the Future, a $100 cardinal su …

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