Artificial Intelligence · Cybersecurity
Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI report record lobbying quarters
Federal disclosures showed that Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI each had their highest lobbying spend between July and September, while Apple also reported a record quarter.
- Federal disclosures showed that Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September.
- Nvidia spent $2.2 million, Anthropic spent $2.1 million and OpenAI spent $1.5 million.
- Anthropic disclosed lobbying on topics including the Kids Online Safety Act, the AI Overwatch Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act.
- The article said OpenAI lobbied on copyright, cybersecurity evaluations for frontier models, AI safety oversight frameworks and antitrust protections for information sharing.
- Apple also reported a record lobbying quarter, spending $3.1 million.
Federal disclosures showed that Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia each spent more on lobbying in the July-to-September quarter than in any previous quarter. Nvidia spent $2.2 million, Anthropic spent $2.1 million and OpenAI spent $1.5 million.
The article said the combined spend was close to $6 million. It also noted that Microsoft and Google had spent at similar or higher levels for longer periods.
Anthropic filed a detailed list of the issues it had lobbied on in the quarter. Those included provisions in the Kids Online Safety Act, export controls in the AI Overwatch Act, a Trump executive order that renamed AI as "Super Intelligence", and the Ratepayer Protection Act.
OpenAI’s filings listed higher-level topics, including copyright, cybersecurity evaluations for frontier models, AI safety oversight frameworks and antitrust protections for information sharing. The article linked that activity to the fallout from the Hugging Face attack, while saying the disclosures themselves did not go beyond broad issue areas.
Apple also reported its first quarter above $3 million in lobbying spend, at $3.1 million. The article said the disclosures showed the three AI firms becoming more active in policymaking ahead of the midterm elections.
Named in this story
People
- President Donald Trump
- attended the White House lunch mentioned in the article
Companies
- Anthropic
- reported its highest-spending lobbying quarter
- OpenAI
- reported its highest-spending lobbying quarter
- Nvidia
- reported its highest-spending lobbying quarter
- Microsoft
- was used as a comparison for lobbying spend
- was used as a comparison for lobbying spend
- Apple
- reported a record lobbying quarter
- Hugging Face
- was cited as context for OpenAI's lobbying
Governments and agencies
- White House
- hosted the lunch and was one of the lobbying venues
- Congress
- was one of the bodies the companies lobbied
- Small Business Administration
- was one of OpenAI's lobbying targets
- Commerce Department
- was one of OpenAI's lobbying targets
- State Department
- was one of OpenAI's lobbying targets
- Kids Online Safety Act
- was one of Anthropic's lobbying topics
- AI Overwatch Act
- was one of Anthropic's lobbying topics
- Ratepayer Protection Act
- was one of Anthropic's lobbying topics
How the source tells it
The register was businesslike, but it used forward-looking claims to suggest rising political urgency around AI lobbying.
- urgency The article framed the quarter as a busy period and repeatedly forecast more lobbying activity ahead.
- speculation presented as fact It treated inferences about policy influence and future election pressure as settled conclusions rather than projections.