Record lobbying quarters for OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia

status: open, opened 2026-10-22, last moved 2026-10-22. AI openai anthropic nvidia us

• 2026-10-22 (~11:50 AM ET, The Verge — https://www.theverge.com/policy/1016585/openai-anthropic-nvidia-lobbying-records): federal disclosure filings show Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia each logged their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September 2026 — Nvidia at $2.2 million, then Anthropic's $2.1 million and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Beside incumbent Big Tech operations the sums are not out of the ordinary — Microsoft has spent at least $2 million a quarter going back to 2021. Debut thread: the labs' own federal lobbying line had not been on the record before; the spike lands in the busiest AI-policy quarter on record. Watch: next quarter's filings, named asks in the disclosure text, and whether spend scales with the capex boom.