The sums are modest next to older tech giants: Google regularly spends over $3 million a quarter, and Apple set its own record at $3.1 million. Anthropic listed topics including the Kids Online Safety Act, export controls in the AI Overwatch Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would put data centre energy costs on developers. OpenAI lobbied on copyright, cybersecurity testing of frontier models and AI safety oversight. Nvidia’s issues included export controls, 6G networks and quantum computing. OpenAI had never spent $1 million in a single quarter before this year.
Why it matters
Rising spending signals that AI firms now treat policy as core to their business, not a side issue. With midterm elections ahead and Democrats expected to win back some control of Congress, rules on safety, energy and chips could tighten. The companies are positioning early, and their different priority lists hint at where future rules could set them against one another.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
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