Marc Andreessen-Backed Super-PAC Pours Millions Into Fighting State AI Regulations

A pro-AI super PAC is investing millions into creating an AI-friendly regulatory environment in the United States.

Called “Leading The Future,†the super PAC is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and the AI search engine company Perplexity.

It launched in August, reportedly armed with more than $100 million to ensure a pro-AI win across the country in the 2026 midterm elections. According to the Wall Street Journal, the super PAC is emboldened by the success of crypto super PAC Fairshake, which counted significant pro-crypto wins in the 2024 presidential and local elections.

The PAC’s first target is New York state assembly member Alex Bores, who is running for a spot in Congress in the Democratic primaries (though the super PAC’s efforts are bipartisan, much to the chagrin of the White House). Bores is the co-sponsor of the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, a landmark piece of state-level AI safety legislation that has passed all votes and is waiting for the approval of Governor Kathy Hochul.

With a year to go until the midterms, the super PAC has found another target: the state regulations, like RAISE that are giving the AI industry a tough time.

Leading The Future launched a $10 million campaign on Monday, pushing Washington to adopt “a uniform national approach to AI,†the executive director of the PAC’s advocacy arm, Nathan Leamer, told CNBC. The advocacy offshoot led by Leamer is a non-profit called Build American AI, and it’s entirely dedicated to this goal, with CNBC reporting that the group will run TV, digital, and social media ads to campaign for its legislative agenda.

That uniform national approach they are campaigning for will likely override some of the stricter regulations that have been proposed on the state level.

In the absence of any federal regulation governing AI, states like New York and California have taken matters into their own hands with regulations that require AI companies to adopt safety measures. Some in the industry see this as stifling innovation.

It’s not just Silicon Valley, plenty in Washington are unhappy with this as well. That crowd includes a lot of Republican legislators and President Donald Trump.

Republicans have revived calls for a moratorium on state AI laws. A previous attempt to add a similar moratorium to the Big Beautiful Bill fell through in the eleventh hour due to bipartisan backlash. There are several Republicans who support child safety laws regarding AI, and a complete moratorium could jeopardize those pieces of legislation as well.

The moratorium is expected to either be a standalone bill or be added to a must-pass bill like the National Defense Authorization Act, which will be voted on next month.

Trump already expressed his support on his Truth Social account last week, saying that the United States “MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.â€

Trump might be planning an executive order to take care of that. Last week, WIRED obtained a draft executive order that would create an “AI Litigation Task Force,†which would sue states over AI laws that are deemed to violate federal law governing free speech, interstate commerce, and more. Although reports said Trump could sign this executive order by the end of the week, he hasn’t done that yet. Instead, on Monday, he signed another expansive AI-related executive order.

Called “The Genesis Mission,†that executive order lays out a plan to use AI to turbocharge the government’s efforts to solve 20 core science “challenges†that are still to be determined. There’s a theme of centralization running through that, too, as the order charges Energy Secretary Chris Wright with “ensuring that all DOE resources used for elements of the Mission are integrated into a secure, unified platform.â€