Funded by my wife & me personally, not funded by OpenAI! No PAC speaks on behalf of OpenAI. Anna's and my goal with donating has always been to express support for sensible AI regulation (x.com/gdb/status/20065128081…), very glad to see that increasingly landing!

Have had a very weird past 48 hours. Initially I reached out to 3 Dems recently endorsed by super PAC Leading the Future about whether they’d be accepting: Ritchie Torres, Rob Menendez, and Val Hoyle. Seemed like a pretty reasonable question I’d expected they were prepared for, since I was asking 4 days after the endorsement was announced. The PAC is funded by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, venture capital investors Andreessen Horowitz, and others, and their critics claim the PAC is anti-regulation. Hoyle’s office initially gave me a fairly critical statement distancing themselves from LTF, and I wrote up a simple story. The statement wasn’t that surprising, since Hoyle had vehemently opposed federal preemption of state AI laws before - and LTF likes preemption. Then I reached out to LTF for comment. This is standard practice for reporters, to ensure everyone has a chance to say their piece, They gave me a fairly straightforward statement. Candidates and PACs aren’t legally allowed to coordinate, so I didn’t expect some big, orchestrated response. All pretty normal. It was after that that things got weird. Hours after I initially talked to them - but about 7 min after hearing from LTF - Hoyle’s office reached out to ask if they could change their quotes. Suddenly they were more appreciative of LTF’s endorsement, saying that she would “refuse to ignore industry” but wanted to advocate for workers. They sent me a Google doc and I watched them write and rewrite the statement multiple times. Then she appears to have ‘preempted’ our story with a series of X posts and videos. (Credits @ShakeelHashim for that joke lol) I’m not sure what made them change their tune so dramatically, long after the working day was done. But their about face seems symptomatic of a changing political environment, in which AI is becoming a more salient political issue and candidates must be careful how they talk about accepting support from AI PACs (LTF and others). Hoyle has received almost $300k in support from a LTF affiliated PAC - a nice boost for any political candidate - but can’t lose her pro-labor bona fides either. More details and analysis in my latest for @ReadTransformer (link in reply)

Days after Leading the Future endorsement, Hoyle says there have been Qs about her AI stance. Says she wants to engage to protect workers and ratepayer and is “glad to have been recognized.” (@vronirwin with story today noting Hoyle’s initial distancing)

Alex Bores officially takes the lead on Kalshi! It's a relatively shallow market, so one or two big bets can cause some serious fluctuation. And I would guess Bores polls especially well with Kalshi users (most of whom are probably not in-district). But still...

I have never taken money from Palantir and never will. And despite what my opponents claim, NY does not fund ICE. My office has called out Palantir for its actions that run contrary to our values and create potential shareholder risk, and we will continue to do so.

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG. wired.com/story/super-pac-ba…

Breaking news: Americans are broadly dissatisfied with President Trump’s leadership on the Iran war and other key issues and an electorate in which Democrats are significantly more motivated to vote, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. wapo.st/4d3nCyr

Outrageous. A survivor accused Zia Chishti of horrific behavior during Congressional testimony on behalf of the push for the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. Now, Chishti is the keynote speaker at @paklaunchdotcom, which is backed by global companies.@awscloud @Meta @LinkedIn @BCG — WHY are you supporting this?politico.com/news/magazine/2…

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”