OpenAI Opens First Washington Lobbying Office as Its Q1 Spending Doubles to $1 Million
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Updated · The New York Times · May 13
OpenAI Opens First Washington Lobbying Office as Its Q1 Spending Doubles to $1 Million
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 13
OpenAI is opening the Workshop—its first Washington lobbying office—on Wednesday, placing a lab-and-showroom space just blocks from the White House to work more directly with lawmakers.
The move deepens OpenAI’s policy push on issues central to its business, including faster data-center buildouts and the ability to use copyrighted material more freely.
$1 million in first-quarter federal lobbying spending marked a doubling from a year earlier, underscoring how aggressively the company is expanding its influence campaign.
Anthropic opened its first Washington office in April and raised lobbying spending tenfold to $3 million last year, while Meta, Nvidia and Alphabet together spent $47.8 million in 2025.
A.I. lobbying has surged across Washington: about a quarter of the city’s 13,000 federal lobbyists now work on A.I. issues, up from 11% in 2023.
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