{"id":205713,"date":"2026-04-25T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:50:10","slug":"ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"AI firms flex lobbying muscle on both side of Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/articleshow\/130508951.cms\">AI firms flex lobbying muscle on both side of Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/articleshow\/130508951.cms\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/articleshow\/130508951.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-25 01:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"economictimes.indiatimes.com\">economictimes.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points summarizing the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Industry&#8217;s Lobbying Efforts:<\/strong> AI companies are heavily investing in lobbying to sway government opinions, regulations, and policies as they influence high-stakes regulatory frameworks in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public Outreach:<\/strong> With significant financial resources, companies like OpenAI are also focusing on public relations to advocate that AI is a beneficial force and not a threat to jobs or humanity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Policy Proposals:<\/strong> OpenAI introduced an &#8220;Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age&#8221; advocating for new taxation and expanded social safety nets to accommodate superintelligent systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Industry Backlashes:<\/strong> Despite these efforts, companies face challenges, such as public backlash against inappropriate content from AI models and legal issues concerning AI-related harm to young people.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Escalating Lobbying Presence:<\/strong> The number of federal lobbyists working on AI issues has increased by 170% over three years, with major companies leading spending and emerging startups also building their Washington presence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Political Influence:<\/strong> There are strong ties between AI companies, their lobbyists, and political figures in both the US and Europe, indicating a significant push from the industry to influence political decisions and electoral politics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI firms flex lobbying muscle on both side of Atlantic http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic\/articleshow\/130508951.cms Publish Date: 2026-04-25 01:36:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/width-1200,height-900,imgsize-38456,resizemode-75,msid-130508951\/tech\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-firms-flex-lobbying-muscle-on-both-side-of-atlantic.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205713","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\/205713"}],"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=205713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205715,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205713\/revisions\/205715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}