Political battle lines now being drawn in the AI industry Anthropic.

Announcing today it's donating $200 million to a super PAC that supports putting more guardraals around the technology.

Deirdre Bosa has more in today's tech checks, so they're not just spending on data centers, Deirdre.

Not just data centers, but this certainly does relate to the ability maybe to build data centers.

But what we're talking about right now is AI's internal safety civil war.

That's going public.

You've got Anthropic on one side arguing for guardrails on everything from kid safety to chip exports to China.

They just put $20 million directly in their own name into a super PAC that will

launch ads for pro-regulation Republicans, and it plans to target 30 to 50 races in both parties

the cycle. Now on the other side, we'll get over to it, a coalition of AI's biggest players,

Open AI co-founder Greg Brockman, Andrews, Horowitz, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. They have poured

$125 million into a pack called Leaving the Future. They want a single federal AI standard that

would override state laws, and they have the White House behind them. Now, a few years ago, guys,

this would have been a side show. AI was all promised and very little pushback, but that is not where we are

anymore. Just this week, an anthropic researcher quit in part to write poetry about, quote,

the place we find ourselves. Two open AI researchers, they also left this week, one citing

ethical concerns and another posting on the way out. I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing.

And then XAI lost the co-founder who ran safety.

Now, yesterday, a former OpenAI safety research published an op-ed in the New York Times,

warning that putting ads in chat GPT is the Facebook playbook all over again.

But I want to stress, this isn't just talk.

Open AI has also dismantled its mission alignment team, which was created to make sure that

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