The AI regulatory battle spills over: OpenAI and Anthropic camps intensify their confrontation, evolving into a multi million dollar election battle Odaily Planet Daily News: The political battle surrounding New York State Councilor Alex Bores' congressional seat has evolved into a direct confrontation between the two camps in the AI industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have invested millions to tens of millions of dollars each through their respective political action committees to support candidates with different stances. The RAISE Act in New York State, previously pushed by Alex Bores, is seen as one of the strictest AI security regulatory attempts in the United States, requiring AI companies to report potential "catastrophic risks" and becoming the core of this round of controversy. Leading the Future, a group supported by OpenAI related investors and Silicon Valley capital, has invested over $7.6 million in advertising funds to try to prevent Alex Bores from being elected, while Anthropic related political networks and their investors have invested over $10 million to support his campaign. This incident has escalated the issue of AI regulation from policy discussions to a focus of real political confrontation, with core disagreements revolving around whether AI should be self regulated by enterprises or strongly regulated by the government. At the same time, both the supporting and opposing camps accuse each other of representing corporate interests rather than public regulatory demands, making the election in this constituency seen as a "proxy war" between the two governance lines of the AI industry. Analysts point out that this incident marks the extension of competition in the AI industry from the technology and product level to the political and regulatory structure level, becoming a key case of the integration of technology and policy.