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AI FIRMS SLASH LOBBYING SPEND IN Q1 2025

Anthropic and OpenAI dramatically reduced their lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of 2025, dropping to $360K and $560K respectively from their Q1 2026 peaks of $1.6M and $1M.

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Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, res…

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OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, wi…

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