Lobbying in Washington: Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI each sign their most expensive quarter, between July and September

$2.2 million for Nvidia, 2.1 for Anthropic, 1.5 for OpenAI: federal statements show AI laboratories increasingly involved in the law making before mid-term elections.

The third quarter lobbying statements, reported by The Verge, show a record for the three companies: $2.2 million spent by Nvidia, $2.1 million by Anthropic and $1.5 million by OpenAI. Amounts that remain below the long-established installed giants (Microsoft exceeds 2 million per quarter since 2021, Google more than 3 million), but the increase is fast: OpenAI had never crossed the million over a quarter before this year, and Anthropic's quarterly maximum last year was around one million.

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Anthropic has detailed his topics: IA component of the Kids Online Safety Act, export controls of the AI Overwatch Act, presidential decree renamed the AI "Super Intelligence" or Ratepayer Protection Act, which would charge developers data centers for their energy costs. OpenAI, in the wake of its agents' attack on Hugging Face, has, among other things, released cybersecurity assessments of advanced models, AI security oversight frameworks and antitrust protection of information sharing. Nvidia covered 6G, AI's "responsible" design, competition, quantum and exports.

Apple also broke its record at $3.1 million. This period preceded Donald Trump's appointment of an AI official and a working group; With a possible resumption of a part of Congress by the Democrats, which is more offensive to the sector, these spending is expected to increase further.