Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with 7.1M — Both Anthropic and OpenAI posted their biggest-ever lobbying spends in the first quarter of 2026, with Anthropic at 1.6 million …

Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong Trump administration ties, days after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)
Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios)
Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal 'limited our ability' to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is 'grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google' and overstating its 'run rate by roughly $8B' (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-21

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