AI Industry Super PAC "Leading the Future" Discloses $125 Million War Chest to Shape 2026 Midterms

Leading the Future, a super PAC backed by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Andreessen Horowitz, and Perplexity, disclosed raising $125 million in the second half of 2025, entering 2026 with $70 million in cash. The group aims to elect pro-AI-industry Congress members who favor uniform federal AI preemption over state-by-state regulation. A linked $10 million lobby arm, Build American AI, runs parallel direct lobbying. Targets include defeating NY state legislator Alex Bores, who championed New York's AI regulation bill.