{"id":1034190,"date":"2026-09-09T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034190"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:24:15","slug":"as-us-mid-term-elections-near-openai-hires-policy-professionals-with-republican-and-democratic-ties-an-analysts-are-linking-it-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/as-us-mid-term-elections-near-openai-hires-policy-professionals-with-republican-and-democratic-ties-an-analysts-are-linking-it-to\/","title":{"rendered":"As US mid-term elections near; OpenAI hires policy professionals with Republican and Democratic ties; an; analysts are linking it to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is expanding its government and public policy team as the US midterm elections approach, bringing in professionals with ties to both Democrats and Republicans. According to a report by Axios, the AI company has reportedly hired Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for a senior policy role covering government outreach and partnerships in Northeastern states. The move comes as technology companies face growing attention from lawmakers over artificial intelligence, regulation and the future of the industry. OpenAI has also hired a former Meta public-policy official who previously worked for a Republican state leader. The hiring strategy has drawn attention as analysts and industry observers watch how Silicon Valley is preparing for the November elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is expanding its government and public policy team as the US midterm elections approach, bringing in professionals with ties to both Democrats and Republicans. According to a report by Axios, the AI company has reportedly hired Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for a senior policy role covering government outreach and partnerships in Northeastern states. The move comes as technology companies face growing attention from lawmakers over artificial intelligence, regulation and the future of the industry. OpenAI has also hired a former Meta public-policy official who previously worked for a Republican state leader. The hiring [&hellip;]<\/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-1034190","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\/1034190","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=1034190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034192,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034190\/revisions\/1034192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}