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Pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores has lost a tight House primary race after being targeted by Silicon Valley billionaires, a result that puts a sharper edge on the AI industry's political strategy: it is now willing to pick individual critics and fund campaigns to remove them.
The Race and What Made Bores a Target Bores ran as a critic of Big Tech and had staked out a position supporting regulation of the AI industry.
That positioning was enough to draw active opposition from Silicon Valley's billionaire class, who backed efforts against his campaign.
The source characterizes the race as tight, which means the opposition spending may have been the decisive variable in a close outcome — exactly the kind of marginal impact that makes primary targeting attractive.
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