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Regulatory formation periods carry a specific economic property: rules are cheaper to influence before they are written than after.
Federal AI policy has not yet crystallized into statute, leaving Congress and relevant agencies in active deliberation over liability frameworks, definitional questions, and oversight scope.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft have all pushed their Washington lobbying expenditure to record levels, in what the reporting describes as a growing battle over federal policy.
The mechanism behind record spending When foundational rules are still being drafted, lobbying functions as direct product protection.
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