{"id":1024547,"date":"2026-07-29T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024547"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:43:43","slug":"some-of-the-biggest-names-in-ai-and-tech-industry-have-donated-over-65-million-on-midterm-elections-to-shape-balance-of-power-on-issues-related-to-ban-on-datacenters-ai-regulation-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/some-of-the-biggest-names-in-ai-and-tech-industry-have-donated-over-65-million-on-midterm-elections-to-shape-balance-of-power-on-issues-related-to-ban-on-datacenters-ai-regulation-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest names in AI and tech industry have donated over $65 million on midterm elections to shape balance of power on issues related to ban on datacenters, AI regulation and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s top executives and AI startups are donating large sums of money for the upcoming midterm elections, a report has said, adding that this mounts a proxy war to shape the next Congress and key state legislatures. As per The Financial Times, networks of super PACs linked to tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and venture capital heavyweights have already spent more than $65 million.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal is simple: steer federal and local policy on critical issues that range from state-level data centre bans to strict oversight of advanced AI models, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s top executives and AI startups are donating large sums of money for the upcoming midterm elections, a report has said, adding that this mounts a proxy war to shape the next Congress and key state legislatures. As per The Financial Times, networks of super PACs linked to tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and venture capital heavyweights have already spent more than $65 million. Their goal is simple: steer federal and local policy on critical issues that range from state-level data centre bans to strict oversight of advanced AI models, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024549,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024547\/revisions\/1024549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}