AI PACs spend nearly $1 million in obscure Senate race

Super PACs tied to AI labs and investors have directed about $1 million to the Senate campaign of Republican Mike Rounds in South Dakota. Defend American Jobs, funded by an Andreessen Horowitz entity, spent about $600,000, with another $215,000 from employees and PACs linked to Anthropic, Google and Microsoft.

• Defend American Jobs spent about $600,000 for Rounds
• Another $215,000 came from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft staff and PACs
• Leading the Future, with Greg Brockman, to give $2 million to pro-AI senators
• Rounds raised more from tech groups than from South Dakota donors