OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington the-decoder.com

OpenAI is planning a post-midterm lobbying and public-relations push, according to Axios, as it prepares for increased scrutiny if Democrats take control of the House. Policy chief Chris Lehane says the company will promote binding “speed limit” safety rules for frontier AI, argue that AI complements rather than replaces workers, and rebrand data centers as “AI Compute Campuses” while highlighting local economic benefits.