edit: and Sam Altman isn’t exactly donating game changing amounts — around $300K in 2020, and seemingly effectively nothing for this election. That’s certainly nothing to sneeze at as an individual politician, but that’s about 0.01% of his net worth (going off Wikipedia’s estimate of $2.8B, not counting the ~$7B of OpenAI stock coming his way).
When you see any numbers for corporations contributing to political campaigns, that's actually just measuring the contributions from the employees of those corporations. That's why most corporations "donate to both parties"--because they employ both Republicans and Democrats.
Can’t find a good source for both rn but this one has alphabet in the top 50 nationwide for this election: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizat...
edit: and Sam Altman isn’t exactly donating game changing amounts — around $300K in 2020, and seemingly effectively nothing for this election. That’s certainly nothing to sneeze at as an individual politician, but that’s about 0.01% of his net worth (going off Wikipedia’s estimate of $2.8B, not counting the ~$7B of OpenAI stock coming his way).
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/openai-sam-altman-political-d...