NY-12: Pro-AI PAC sinks a New York City congressional candidate -- from a Nevada mailbox [View all]

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.

More than $8 million of the attack spending against Bores was launched by a federal super PAC called Think Big.




https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/06/25/pro-ai-pac-sinks-a-new-york-city-congressional-candidate-from-a-nevada-mailbox/