{"id":186307,"date":"2026-02-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/how-palantir-and-ai-money-is-shaping-the-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:35:11","slug":"how-palantir-and-ai-money-is-shaping-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/how-palantir-and-ai-money-is-shaping-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"How Palantir and AI money is shaping the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/11\/politics\/palantir-midterms-artificial-intelligence-ai\">How Palantir and AI money is shaping the midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/11\/politics\/palantir-midterms-artificial-intelligence-ai\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/11\/politics\/palantir-midterms-artificial-intelligence-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An ad targets congressional candidate Alex Bores, accusing him of working for Palantir, a company linked to controversial contracts with ICE, and claims that Bores&#8217; technology powers ICE operations.<\/li>\n<li>The ad\u2019s super PAC backing is an affiliate of Leading The Future, a committee funded by tech giants like Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, aimed at countering backlash against AI.<\/li>\n<li>Tech industry leaders are investing heavily in political efforts to shape favorable legislative environments for AI, fearing restrictive state laws might stifle innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Palantir, supported by billionaire investors like Peter Thiel and company CEO Alex Karp, is in a position of conflict due to its involvement with ICE and its push for AI dominance.<\/li>\n<li>Amid growing public and bipartisan concern about AI&#8217;s impacts, candidates are being challenged for their ties to AI companies, including controversial donations.<\/li>\n<li>Some politicians, like New York&#8217;s Gov. Kathy Hochul, are championing state AI safety measures, pointing towards potential legislative battles over federal versus state AI regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Palantir and AI money is shaping the midterms https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/11\/politics\/palantir-midterms-artificial-intelligence-ai Publish Date: 2026-02-11 05:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/01-gettyimages-1244621687.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186309,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186307\/revisions\/186309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}