US EditionMeta to launch California super PAC backing pro-AI candidates
Leading the Future super PAC, backed by top tech firms and investors, aims to shape AI policy by supporting pro-innovation candidates and opposing restrictive regulations ahead of 2026.
- On Monday, August 25, a coalition launched the new political action network Leading the Future, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, with $100 million funding for federal and state super PACs.
- Organizers say the move responds to rising state and federal rulemaking, aiming to prevent fragmented AI laws and protect U.S. leadership amid competition from China, modeled on Fairshake's crypto-era playbook.
- The group plans to engage through policy drafting, rapid-response PR, and lobbying lawmakers in New York, California, Illinois, and Ohio this year.
- Industry strategists warn the initiative could reshape U.S. technology policy as the effort aims to influence the 2026 midterm elections by backing pro‑AI candidates, and experts say lobbying may delay or soften regulations.
- Modeled on Fairshake, the effort follows a crypto-style playbook using more than $200 million for political influence; organizers say Leading the Future begins operations this year with additional funders coming in the weeks ahead.
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Meta (Facebook, Instagram) will launch a political agency in California to fund local candidates for less stringent regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the state that houses Silicon Valley. ...
Meta will launch a political agency in California to fund local candidates for less stringent AI regulation.
Meta launches super PAC focused on AI-friendly candidates
Meta will launch a new multimillion-dollar California Super PAC to support state political candidates who support loose regulations on artificial intelligence and technology. The new Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California PAC, Politico reported, will begin with an initial investment of tens of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram parent empire. Meta’s Public Policy Vice Presidents Greg Maurer and…
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