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The AI industry just won a race — but lost the war

Alex Bores lost. So did the tech right.

Eric Levitz

Jun 25, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

New York Assembly member Alex Bores los...

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Politics

The AI industry just won a race — but lost the war

Alex Bores lost. So did the tech right.

Eric Levitz

Jun 25, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

New York Assembly member Alex Bores lost his election to represent the state’s 12th District.

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Eric Levitz

is a senior correspondent at Vox. He covers a wide range of political and policy issues with a special focus on questions that internally divide the American left and right. Before coming to Vox in 2024, he wrote a column on politics and economics for New York Magazine.

New York’s congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI’s top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalemate that only raises more questions about whether their spending can keep pace with an anti-AI backlash.

The stage for the battle was set last year, when some of America’s leading tech investors

launched a new, $100 million super PAC

dedicated to electing candidates who were “aligned with the pro-AI agenda” and defeating those who weren’t.

Months later, this group — dubbed Leading the Future (LTF) — named its

first target

: New York Assembly member Alex Bores.

Bores had been the chief sponsor of the Empire State’s “

RAISE Act,

” which required developers of frontier AI models to follow various safety protocols or face steep fines. LTF fiercely opposed that bill. Thus, when Bores launched a congressional run, the super PAC sought to teach him — and his fellow Democrats — a lesson: Purse sweeping AI regulations and your next campaign will drown in a flood of opposition spending.

At first glance, it may look like LTF just achieved that objective.

Bores lost his bid

on Tuesday night to represent New York’s 12th District. Headlines deemed the race a

victory for “Big Tech.”

But appearances can be deceiving. In truth, Silicon Valley’s libertarians are losing the fight over AI regulation — and t

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