[thewebguyd]

Probably a real effort to push for some kind of sanctions or commerce block on Chinese models. Anthropic just doubled their political spending to $40 mil for the midterms to push for "AI Safety."

[mcintyre1994]

I suspect that whatever Musk has agreed to spend on the midterms in exchange for those sweetheart deals the SpaceX IPO got will make that look absolutely comical, but we’ll see.

[zugi]

I don't see why convincing people to overpay for something based on hype and artificial scarcity required any "sweetheart deals" via congress.