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As the last trickle of primary voters hit the polls on Tuesday night, a handful of very interested outside parties will be closely observing the results in central Manhattan, where congressional hopeful Alex Bores has faced down a veritable flood of Silicon Valley spending. Bores, of course, is the New York assemblyman responsible for the Raise Act, the state’s landmark A.I. safety bill, which has subsequently made him public enemy number one for Leading the Future—the pro-A.I. super PAC fueled by some $25 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna; as well as $100 million from a16z and its co-founders, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. As of March 31, the group had around $51 million in cash on hand—at least $8 million of which had gone toward taking out Bores.