When Anthropic and OpenAI took their rivalry to the political arena with a twenty-seven million dollar spending campaign, their target was Alex Bores's run for Congress in New York's 12th district. The state Assemblyman gained traction after being backed by a pro-AI super PAC, but he narrowly lost the Democratic primary last night. According to The Verge, the expensive proxy war ended in a draw, with neither AI company achieving a clear victory.

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