{"id":958265,"date":"2025-08-28T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958265"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:59:00","slug":"rise-of-ai-lobby-in-silicon-valley-as-tech-leaders-fund-big-political-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/rise-of-ai-lobby-in-silicon-valley-as-tech-leaders-fund-big-political-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of AI lobby in Silicon Valley as tech leaders fund big political push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley investors, encouraged by President Trump\u2019s friendliness toward tech and crypto, are committing up to $200 million to two new super political action committees (PAC) aimed at ousting politicians seen as obstacles to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>One of the super PACs, Meta California, has drawn tens of millions from Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. The second super PAC, Leading the Future, is backed with $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz and $50 million from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, and his wife, Anna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley investors, encouraged by President Trump\u2019s friendliness toward tech and crypto, are committing up to $200 million to two new super political action committees (PAC) aimed at ousting politicians seen as obstacles to artificial intelligence. One of the super PACs, Meta California, has drawn tens of millions from Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. The second super PAC, Leading the Future, is backed with $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz and $50 million from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, and his wife, Anna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958265","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}