AI Companies Are Funding the AGs Investigating Them
OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others sent a wave of donations to both parties’ attorney general groups as AGs move to regulate the AI industry. Elon Musk's xAI contributed as well.
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The Billionaire Money Behind New Centrist Pledge
Promise to America won't disclose who is funding its new anti-socialist pledge. But the group is closely tied to the Welcome Party, whose affiliated PAC has raised most of its individual donor dollars from billionaires and wealthy finance executives.
Trump's $88B Iran War Supplemental Would Reward the Contractors Funding His Fourth of July Bash
Lockheed Martin, RTX, and other Freedom 250 sponsors stand to profit from the skyrocketing Pentagon budget and replenishing of missiles fired on Iran.
Wes Moore Won't Say If He Took a Citigroup Bonus After the Bailout
The Maryland governor has now dodged the question twice.
Netflix Raised Prices After Pocketing a $2.8 Billion Windfall
Anti-monopoly advocates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren tell Sludge the timing of the price hikes undermine the streaming service’s argument that it does not hold monopoly power.
GOP's Outside-Money Edge Is Being Built by Billionaires, Oil, and Crypto
Around half the money fueling the super PACs allied with Republican leaders in Congress has come from billionaire donors, a new Sludge analysis finds.
Spouse of Intel Committee Member Makes Timely Quantum Stock Purchase
MAGA Rep. Greg Steube’s spouse bought stock last month in a quantum computing company whose share price boomed when it reached a technical milestone and was awarded a defense contract.
These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir
Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE operations.
AI Lobbyists Are Flying Congressional Staffers Around the Country on Luxury Trips
The Innovative Future Collective, packed with corporate lobbyists for AI industry giants like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, has been paying for House and Senate staff trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
Defense Contractor–Funded Think Tank Warns of Weapons Shortage After Iran Strikes
NPR listeners weren’t told the think tank receives millions from Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman.