AILobbying

EPR Research and 5W Release "The AI Lobbying Industry Map 2026"

Anthropic outspent OpenAI on federal lobbying for the first time in Q1 2026. Meta led all companies in 2025 with $26.29 million in lobbying — the most of any company in any industry. More than 3,570 federal lobbyists worked AI issues in 2025, equal to roughly one in four federal…