The artificial intelligence industry claimed one of its first high-profile scalps of the 2026 campaign cycle in a New York congressional primary Tuesday, putting politicians on notice nationwide that if they want to advocate regulation of AI, the industry, a segment of the industry will be coming after them.
And Nevada helped. A little.
Federal political action committees backed by giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz principals Mark Andreesson and Ben Horowitz, along with some other extravagantly wealthy pro-AI figures, spent millions against Democratic candidate Alex Bores in New York’s 12th congressional district primary, which Bores lost to a fellow New York state assemblymember, Micah Lasher…