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The Biggest Pro-AI Super Pac Network Didn't Really Impact the Midterms

Publisher description: Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.

Wired | Nov 4, 2026 | Tess Owen

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The pro-AI safety network Public First, which has significant financial backing from Anthropic, spent $15 million boosting Bores’ candidacy. Leading the Future spent about $26 million in independent expenditures on the primaries alone. Of the other toss-up House races that Leading the Future weighed in on, almost all were in support of Republican candidates through the American Mission super PAC.

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