Andrew Ng's The Batch: Big AI's Lobbying Is Regulatory Capture — Meta Spent $26.3M, More Than Any Company in Any Industry
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Ng's latest letter argues escalating AI-lab lobbying is engineering a streamlined regulatory environment that consolidates incumbent power and suppresses open source, citing Meta ($26.29M), Amazon ($17.89M), Alphabet ($13.1M), Microsoft ($9.36M), and Nvidia's 7x jump to $4.9M. His framing — that policy is being routed through big-tech-authored frameworks — is a builder-side warning to anyone betting on open weights.