Overview
- Leading The Future, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, has raised about $100 million to support AI-friendly candidates in 2026.
- The PAC’s advocacy arm, Build American AI, rolled out a $10 million TV, digital, and social campaign urging a uniform national approach to AI that would override tougher state rules.
- The group’s first named electoral target is New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, a co-sponsor of the RAISE Act, who is running in a Democratic primary for Congress.
- A counter-effort led by former Rep. Brad Carson is forming a network of super PACs aiming for an initial $50 million to back candidates who favor stricter AI safeguards.
- President Donald Trump has voiced support for a single federal standard on AI; reporting describes a draft order to create an AI Litigation Task Force that has not been signed, while he signed a separate AI research-focused order called The Genesis Mission.