{"id":712871,"date":"2026-02-21T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anthropic-funded-group-backs-candidate-attacked-by-rival-ai-super-pac\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:15:11","slug":"anthropic-funded-group-backs-candidate-attacked-by-rival-ai-super-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anthropic-funded-group-backs-candidate-attacked-by-rival-ai-super-pac\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign by a pro-AI super PAC to thwart his congressional bid. The group, Leading the Future, is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bores\u2019 response was simple: bring it on.\u00a0Now, he\u2019s got the muscle to back that challenge up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public First Action, a PAC backed by a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/donate-public-first-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$20 million donation from Anthropic<\/a>, is spending $450,000 to boost Bores in the race for New York\u2019s 12th congressional district, reports <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-19\/anthropic-backed-group-jumps-into-new-york-congressional-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a>. Like its rival, the committee is pro-AI, but it\u2019s pitching a different vision, one centered on transparency, safety standards, and public oversight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the industry-backed PAC, Leading the Future, has already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Bores, largely because he sponsored New York\u2019s RAISE Act, which requires major AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious misuse of their systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The group, Leading the Future, is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2259873774.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,159636,151537,151418,159637,160691,160692],"class_list":["post-712871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-alex-bores","tag-government-policy","tag-in-brief","tag-leading-the-future","tag-public-first-action","tag-raise-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}