It was the most expensive election in US history and most of the biggest spenders have little to show for it.

The alliance between Silicon Valley and the White House is at risk of unraveling in the face of rising AI backlash

Billionaire Jeff Yass gave almost $110 million to boost Republicans in the US midterm elections, making him the third-largest individual donor of this cycle and the top financial backer of embattled Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

Crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss poured more than $2.9 million in just one day into advertising to fight Senate Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, adding to the escalating financial firepower the crypto industry is training on the Ohio populist.

Spending on data centers, the backbone of the artificial intelligence industry, has reached new highs in 2026. In response to the infrastructure boom, opposition to the facilities has exploded this year, escalating from a niche local issue to a defining topic ahead of the November midterm elections. Almost overnight, candidates across the political spectrum have reshaped their messaging in response to a grassroots backlash against a build-out backed by hundreds of billions of dollars in tech spe

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and so too does artificial intelligence.

New York Assemblyman Alex Bores and his former chief of staff are launching a $30 million effort to craft an artificial intelligence safety agenda for the 2028 presidential election.

Spending on data centers, the backbone of the artificial intelligence industry, has reached new highs in 2026. In response to the infrastructure boom, opposition to the facilities has exploded this year, escalating from a niche local issue to a defining topic ahead of the November midterm elections. Almost overnight, candidates across the political spectrum have reshaped their messaging in response to a grassroots backlash against a build-out backed by hundreds of billions of dollars in tech spe

An advocacy group backed by artificial intelligence industry billionaires is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in election battleground states to try to counter a mounting public backlash against a data center construction wave crucial to the industry’s growth plans.

Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about how the demand for AI data centers has sparked outrage across the US in a Live Q&A on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. EDT.

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a prolific fundraiser and a once-prominent messenger for the party, prevailed Tuesday in a South Florida congressional primary campaign marked by controversy over race and redistricting.

The artificial-intelligence industry’s political machines battling each other over how to regulate the technology are trying a new tactic in Florida after fighting in primary elections across the US: joining together to make multimillion-dollar bets on the same candidate.

A key Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at improving children’s safety online, teeing up a showdown with the House over whether to hold Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harms done to minors on their social media platforms.

President Donald Trump said he is open to the possibility of temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general amid opposition from two Republican senators, suggesting he could renominate his pick after those lawmakers departed office.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he supports slowing the pace of artificial intelligence development, highlighting the company’s shifting approach to the emerging technology after one of its advanced AI models inadvertently hacked Hugging Face Inc. last week.

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang defended open-weight artificial intelligence systems as crucial to the nascent AI industry, sending a cautionary message to officials in Washington who are debating how to respond to a surprise breakthrough from Chinese startup Moonshot.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and five other employees of the company gave more than $2 million to a super political action committee focused on regulating artificial intelligence, boosting the AI safety movement’s war chest in this year’s midterm elections.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster picked Darline Graham Nordone to complete the remainder of the late Senator Lindsey Graham’s term, which expires in January.

Progressive lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders led the first wave of opposition to data centers. Now Republican candidates around the US are seizing on the fervor even as President Donald Trump actively courts tech titans and promotes the rapid, streamlined expansion of the energy-hungry facilities.

Progressive lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders led the first wave of opposition to data centers. Now Republican candidates around the US are seizing on the fervor even as President Donald Trump actively courts tech titans and promotes the rapid, streamlined expansion of the energy-hungry facilities.