"Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry, beginning this week in Texas and Illinois, according to company representatives ... Political operatives tied to A.I. interests have focused this election cycle on state capitols out of concern that states were developing a patchwork of laws that would stifle A.I. development."
"Regarding regulation and national law, firms like Meta are, for now, in reasonably good shape. They have an administration that's broadly deregulatory and specifically pro-AI industry and has mostly limited its threats of intervention to complaints about "wokeness" - a problem for a company like Anthropic, perhaps, but maybe less so for ones like Meta that preemptively ponied up and fell in line."
Meta's large, early pivot into artificial intelligence has produced middling models, major internal restructuring, and clashing visions, leaving the company technically an AI also-ran. The company is simultaneously directing substantial funds toward politics to shape regulation and electoral outcomes. The federal administration remains broadly deregulatory and pro-AI, reducing immediate national legal pressure for aligned firms. Meta plans major state-level spending to support politicians friendly to AI, with operatives targeting state capitols to prevent a patchwork of restrictive laws. AI firms are focused on fending off direct regulation of how AI products are built, used, and deployed.
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