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title: "How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-a-small-wealthy-ai-safety-network-that-organized-in-signal-chats-6ad3ebeb
published: 2026-11-08T02:45:02.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-08 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-a-small-wealthy-ai-safety-network-that-organized-in-signal-chats-6ad3ebeb

Politico : How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms — For years, the policy debate over artificial intelligence belonged to those who counted progress in decades.

In this story: [AI Safety](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-safety), [Leading the Future](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/leading-the-future), [AI policy](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-policy), [Politico](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/politico)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261107/p18#a261107p18)

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