# Anthropic and OpenAI poured $27 million into one House race, and both lost

> When two AI labs pour 27 million dollars into one House seat, the technology has clearly stopped being just a product story and become a political one. The most interesting result is that voters shrugged, handing the win to a candidate who ran against both of them. That backlash is a warning that spending your way into politics can just as easily brand you as the thing people want to push back on.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Fortune · Published Sunday, July 5, 2026_

## Wortins' read

When two AI labs pour 27 million dollars into one House seat, the technology has clearly stopped being just a product story and become a political one. The most interesting result is that voters shrugged, handing the win to a candidate who ran against both of them. That backlash is a warning that spending your way into politics can just as easily brand you as the thing people want to push back on.

## Source

[Read the full story at Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/anthropic-openai-ny12-proxy-war-no-winners-election-super-pac-donations/)

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