Super PACs backed by the AI and cryptocurrency industries have amassed more than US$321 million for the 2026 cycle, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings reported by The Nation, aimed at unseating candidates they see as unfriendly to industry-favoured AI rules.
The flagship vehicle, Leading the Future, has raised over US$125 million since its 2025 founding and entered the year with US$70 million on hand; its backers include Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Perplexity. In New York's 12th district alone, the network steered more than US$8 million into advertising against one candidate, part of over US$27 million in AI-industry money on a single House race.
The agent boom is now buying political insurance. For anyone tracking AI regulation, the binding constraint may turn out to be campaign finance, not committee hearings.